Content:
This is a poem draft, the last three lines of which were later revised and
published in
Drum-Taps
(1865) as "World Take Good
Notice" and included in subsequent editions of
Leaves of Grass.
On the verso of this draft is a prose fragment discussing
slavery and Southern
aristocracy.
Content:
Draft of a poem entitled "Up, Lurid Stars!" which was never published in Whitman's
lifetime. It is related to the poem "World Take Good Notice," which was first
published in 1865.
