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This manuscript is a draft of the poem first published as "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!" in the March 1884 issue of
Harper's Monthly Magazine
. The poem was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to the 1888 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. Whitman wrote this draft on the back of a sheet of stationery for the Sheldon House of Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
