FEINBERG/WHITMAN   LITERARY FILE   POETRY FILE   "From My Last Years"(1876). Printed copy.
Box 27 Folder 12

Includes A.MS. corrections & notations.

FROM MY LAST YEARS.

From my last years[,] last thoughts I hear bequeath,
Scatter'd and dropt [,] in seeds, and wafted to the West,
Through moisture of Ohio, prairie soil of Illinois—through
Colorado, California, Canada air,
For Time to germinate fully.

[*(? Leaflets)*]

"FROM MY LAST YEARS" PUBLISHED, TWO RIVULETS
1876 p. 30 - AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS BY WALT 
WHITMAN.  PUBLISHED IN GROUP OF UNCOLLECTED 
AND REJECTED POEMS INCLUSIVE EDITION p. 530 
PUBLISHED WITHOUT CORRECTIONS.

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1876 From My Last Years: corrections. A.MS. (1p. 5 x 13 1/4 cm.)

Written in pencil on a scrap of paper cut from the bottom of a 
larger sheet to which has been attached a clipping of the poem, 
'From My Last Years', with corrections in the margin.  The poem 
was published in Two Rivulets, 1876, p. 30, and in the Inclusive 
Edition, p. 530, without these corrections:

FROM MY LAST YEARS
FROM my last years[,] last thoughts I here bequeath,
Scatter'd and dropt[,] in seeds, and wafted to the West,
Through moisture of Ohio, prairie soil of Illinois--through 
Colorado, California, Canada, air,
For Time to germinate fully.

[*? Leaflets*]
[*[Marginalia are by Whitman above.]*]

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