Content:
Fair copy draft of the poem "Warble for Lilac-Time," first published in the
Galaxy
9 (May 1870).
Whitman revised the poem for reprinting in
Passage to India
(1871), in the New York
Daily Graphic
(12
May 1873), in the group "Passage to India" of
Leaves of Grass
(1872) and
Two Rivulets
(1876),
and in its present form in
Leaves of Grass
(1881-82).
