or The Massacre at Goliad", which he had found in Blackwood's. The original article was based in part on A Campaign in Texas, by Von H. Ehrenberg, Leipzig, 1845.

p. 66, II. 1 ff.: "Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?" etc. According to Dr. Bucke this passage describes the engagement between the Bon Homme Richard, John Paul Jones, commandebr, and the Serapis, Richard Pearson, commander, in the North Sea, September 23, 1779. (Conservator, VII, p. 88.)

p. 69, l. 12: "Eleves". For Whitman's attitude toward the incorporation of foreign words into English speech, see his article "America's Mightiest Inheritance", New York Dissected, pp. 55-65.

p. 70, II. 21-22: "On women", etc. Cf. "To the Garden the World" (p. 86). These lines were included in the Osgood list.

p. 70, II. 23 ff.: "To any one dying", etc. The original manuscript version of this passage is to be seen in U.P.P., II, p. 69.

p. 74, II. 16 ff.: "I do not despise you priests", etc. For a very early employment of the device used in this passage see Sun-Down Papers — No. 8, p. 542. Albert Mordell (Erotic Motive in Literature, p. 240) thinks this passage may have been suggested by George Sand's Consuelo, a book of which Whitman was very fond. A fictional use of the method is made by Jack London in The Star Rover.

p. 79, II. 10 ff.: "I have no chair", etc. For the original prose version of this passage see U.P.P., II, p. 66.

"Children of Adam" (pp. 86-105). For Whitman's statements concerning his purpose in writing this group of poems see "A Memorandum at a Venture" (p. 804) and "Boston Common — More of Emerson" (p. 797). Whitman said to Traubel in March, 1888: " Children of Adam stumps the worst and the best: I have even tried hard to see if it might not as I grow older or experience new moods stump me: I have even almost deliberately tried to retreat. But it would not do. When I tried to take these pieces out of the scheme the whole scheme came down about my ears." (Traubel, I, p. 3.) Cf. Letter XXXVIII (p. 948).

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (p. 86):

p. 86, II. 15-16: "From my own voice", etc. and

p. 87, I. 12; p. 88, l. 19: "The female form approaching", etc. These lines were on the Osgood list.

"I Sing the Body Electric" (p. 88).

p. 91, I. 15-p. 92, l. 3: "Mad filaments", etc. These lines were on the Osgood list.

p. 93, I. 13: During his visit to New Orleans in 1848 Whitman had an opportunity to observe the slave auctions in the basement of the old St. Louis Hotel. Advertisements of these auctions were carried in the daily Crescent, on which he worked.

p. 95, I. 17-p. 96, I. 10: "Hips, lip-sockets . . . meat of the body." Osgood included these lines in his list.

"A Woman Waits for Me" (p. 96). The entire poem was on the Osgood list.

"Spontaneous Me" (p. 98, I. 17-p. 100, I. 10). "This poem . . . where it may". This passage was on the Osgood list.

"Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd" (p. 101). All that is known of the romantic attachment celebrated in this poem is given in U.P.P., I, lviii, n. 15. This poem has been set to music by Weda Cook Addicks, but the song has not been published.