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Originally numbered 81 and revised by overwriting to 82, with the note "?/(Leaf
of)" above the number and title. Whitman numbered the leaves 1-5 in pencil in the
lower left corners. The leaves correspond to various numbered sections of the
1860 published version. In the 1872
Leaves of Grass
Whitman transferred the poem to a
"Leaves of Grass" group,
and in 1881 it was finally moved, after several revisions through the different
published versions, to the cluster "Autumn Rivulets."
