To get the final lilt of songs

Whitman Archive Title: To get the final lilt of songs
Whitman Archive ID: tex.00086
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Box: bv8
Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
Repository Title: Sands at Seventy: To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Manuscript, heavily revised, of "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," which was first published in the April 16, 1888 issue of the New York Herald under the title "The Final Lilt of Songs." It was later included, under its final title, in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (1891–92).