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This poem became section 22 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 edition. In 1867
Whitman dropped the second 1860 verse and made it section 4 of a "Leaves of Grass" group in the
annex "Songs Before Parting".
Whitman gave it the title "What Am I
After All" in
Passage to
India
(1871), and in 1881 it was finally transferred to the cluster
"Autumn Rivulets."
