Content:
This is a draft of "With
Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!," first published in
Harper's Monthly Magazine
in
March
1884, written on the verso of a discarded review of John Burrough's
Notes on Walt Whitman.
This
poem was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to
Leaves of Grass
in 1888 and after.