a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a kid or kitten — probably a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe I have it in me perennially anyhow.)

Then behind all, the deep down consolation (it is a glum one, but I dare not be sorry for the fact of it in the past, nor refrain from dwelling, even vaunting here at the end) that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too over-zealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement and action through the times of 1862, '3, '4, and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of Washington City, or in that place and elsewhere — those hot, sad, wrenching times — the army volunteers, all States — or North or South — the wounded, suffering, dying — the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage — those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown — Will the America of the future — will this vast rich Union ever realize what itself cost, back there after all? — those hecatombs of battle-deaths — Those times of which, O far-off reader, this whole book is indeed finally but a reminiscent memorial from thence by me to you?"

"Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht" (p. 479). First published in Lippincott's Magazine, March 1881.

"On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!" (p. 480). Whitman is quoted as saying that this poem was rejected by the Century Magazineas being merely personal. (Frank Harris, Contemporary Portraits, Third Series, p. 221.)

"My 71st Year" (p. 481). First published in the Century Magazine, November 1889.

"The Pallid Wreath" (p. 481). First published in the Critic, January 10, 1891.

"Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's" (p. 482). First published in the Century Magazine, February 1890.

"To the Pending Year" (p. 483). First published in the Critic, with the title, "To the Year 1889", January 5, 1889.

"Bravo, Paris Exposition!" (p. 483). First published in Harper's Weekly, September 28, 1889.

"Interpolation Sounds" (p. 484). First published in New York Herald, August 12, 1888, without title. Whitman was chagrined that this poem, written in "ten minutes or so", was displayed so prominently in the paper. (Traubel, II, p. 125.)

"To the Sun-set Breeze" (p. 485). First published in Lippincott's Magazine, December 1890; previously rejected by Harper's. (Frank Harris, Contemporary Portraits, Third Series, p. 221.)

"Old Chants" (p. 485). First published in Truth, New York, March 19, 1891. Cf. "With Antecedents" (p. 222); also "Preparatory Reading and Thought". (N. and F., pp. 75-149.)

"Sounds of the Winter" (p. 487). First published in Lippincott's Magazine, March 1891.

"A Twilight Song" (p. 487). First published in the Century Magazine, May 1890.

"When the Full-Grown Poet Came" (p. 488). Cf. "Passage to India", § 5 (p. 375).

"Osceola" (p. 488). First published in Munson's Illustrated World, April 1890.

"A Voice from Death" (p. 489). First published in New York World, June 7, 1889.

"The Commonplace" (p. 491). First published, in facsimile, in Munson's Illustrated World, March 1891. (Rollo G. Silver, American Literature, January 1937, p. 435.)