"To A Common Prostitute" (p. 353). This poem was on the Osgood list, notwithstanding the fact that Whitman said, "It is nothing but the beautiful little idyl of the New Testament concerning the woman taken in adultery." (See Kennedy, pp.125-127.)

"Unfolded Out of the Folds" (p. 356). It is not clear why Whitman did not include this poem in the "Children of Adam" group, where it would seem to belong.

p. 357, ll. 6-7: "Unfolded out of the strong . . . embraces of the man." These two lines were on the Osgood list of expurgations.

"Kosmos" (p. 357). Cf. "Walt Whitman, a kosmos", etc., p. 48, l. 21.

"O Star of France" (p. 360). First published in Galaxy, June 1871. The occasion of this poem was the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War.

"The Ox-Tamer" (p. 362). First published in the New York Daily Graphic, Christmas Number, 1874.

"An Old Man's Thought of School" (p. 363). Recited by the author at the Cooper Public School in Camden and published in the New York Daily Graphic, November 3, 1874.

"Wandering at Morn" (p. 363). First published as "The Singing Thrush" in the New York Daily Graphic, March 15, 1873.

"Italian Music in Dakota" (p. 364). Cf. "Proud Music of the Storm" (p. 366), "The Mystic Trumpeter" (p. 421), "Plays and Operas Too" (p. 564), "Old Actors, Singers, Shows, Etc., in New York" (p. 875), "The Opera" (New York Dissected, pp. 18-23), and Louise Pound "Walt Whitman and Italian Music" (American Mercury, September 1925).

"My Picture-Gallery" (p. 365). First published in the American, October 1880. For a long manuscript out of which this short poem grew, see Pictures, An Unpublished Poem of Walt Whitman (Emory Holloway, editor), New York and London, 1927. Cf. also N. and F., pp. 77,177.

"The Prairie States" (p. 365). A facsimile manuscript of this poem was printed in the catalogue of the Saltus Sale at the Anderson Galleries (1922), and in the Art Autograph, March 16, 1880. It is said to have been published on behalf of the Irish Famine Fund.

"Proud Music of the Storm" (p. 366). First published in the Atlantic Monthly, February 1869, but written some months earlier. For this poem Whitman received $100. (See Traubel, II, 21-23.) The poem was offered to the Atlantic through Whitman's friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Letter LXVIII, p. 981). Cf. For other Whitman compositions on music, see note on "Italian Music in Dakota" (p.364).

"Passage to India" (p. 372). This poem was rejected by Bret Harte when submitted to the Overland Monthly in April 1870. It was first printed as a thin booklet in 1871 (copyright 1870), but parts of it had been written earlier. Section 5 was printed from a manuscript by the Brooklyn Eagle, October 26, 1911, where the date of composition is said to be about 1848. This, however, seems to be a mistake, for Traubel gives a letter to James T. Fields, offering it to the Atlantic on January 20, 1869, and it appeared in the London Fortnightly Review in April of that year. Another passage apparently intended for a separate poem is that in § 8, beginning, "O soul thou pleasest me", and ending with the section. Mr. Oscar Lion of New York owns this manuscript.

The occasion of the poem was the completion of the Suez Canal and the Pacific Railroad. Of the poem Whitman said, "There's more of me, the essential ultimate me, in that than in any of the poems . . . the burden of it is evolution — the one thing escaping the other — the unfolding of cosmic purposes." (Traubel, I, pp. 156-157.)