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the cohorn, a wind instrument

made of bark, bound

round with wire

used by the Russian shepherds

—& ☞ The fishermen on

the Don & the

Wolga

I hear the wild sound of the wild sound of

the from the the cohorn from Russ

shepherds or the

fishermen along the

Don or those of the

Wolga

———

preceding the above

———

the sound of the

loshki the musical little

bells of the wooden loshki

—The Russian loshki, the

little bells attached to the

wood

[paper glued]

—The Sib I see, _{In Siberia} the I see

dance the miners dancing

to mus the sound of

plates of metal

struck by boys, with

iron or wood

———

The old Russian _^ hunting music,

the _^ great band of composed

of horns alone only

Date: This manuscript was probably written in the mid- to late-1860s shortly before publication in 1869.

Editorial note: These notes contribute to the poem first published in the February 1869 number of The Atlantic Monthly as "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm." Subsequently, the poem was titled "Proud Music of the Storm" in Passage to India (1871), Two Rivulets (1876), and in Leaves of Grass (1881-1882).; The verso of the manuscript, which consists of two leaves pasted together, has a partially-obstructed letterhead reading "Washington 18 ." An unfinished letter begins underneath the letterhead: "Dear Sir: Pleas." There is also a note written in an unknown hand reading "notes and extra lines for 'Proud Music of the Storm.'"

Location: Corrections Proud Music of the Storm | The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

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