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Rivulets, some meandering threading through Ohio's

the fields farm-fields, or

in the woods

Some flowing down fr as from

Colorado's mountains cañons , their from from sources

[f?] [deletion, illegible] of of eternal snow,

Some to with in their half‑hid threads in Oregon,—or

southward in Texas,

Some to the north finding their way to Michigan,

Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,

Some to the bays Atlantics bays

and so to the great salt sea brine .

Editorial note: This manuscript is a draft of lines published in the poem "As Consequent, Etc." The poem was published first in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass.; The verso of the manuscript is a letter to Whitman from the Camden and Atlantic Railroad dated January 25, 1881.

Location: As Consequent etc | The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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