FEINBERG/WHITMAN   LITERARY FILE   POETRY FILE   "By Day The Distant Shadowy Sails"(1883). A.MS.draft.
Box 26 Folder 34By day the distant, ? shadowy 
    sails, the steamers' pennant 
    trails of smoke
Some vast soul, like a planet's, 
    bound, arrested, tied,

Watching the distant, shadowy sails, 
    the

My sight and senses given to 
    to thee—the —thy ? saline smell odor,
Thy distant shadowy sails—the 
    steamers' pennant-trails of 
    smoke,
The [flying] soaring [gull] hawks and flocksMr. Walt Whitman
Camden
New Jersey286

1883. By Day the Distant Shadowy Sails: poem. A.MS. (lp. 17 
x 15 cm.)
Written in ink (first 2 lines) and pencil (last 4 lines) on 
the inside of a discarded envelope opened out (addressed to 
Whitman), postmarked 12 October 1883, 57 words:

By day the distant, ? shadowy sails, the steamers' pennant 
trails of smoke 
Some vast soul, like a planet's, bound, arrested, tied,
Watching the distant, shadowy sails, the 
My might [?] and senses given to to thee--the saline smell,--thy 
? odor 
Thy distant shadowy sails--the steamers' pennant-trails of smoke,
The [flying]-[gull] soaring hawks and flocks