Content:
A draft of "After the Supper and
Talk". This poem was rejected by
Harper's
in 1885 but published in
Lippincott's Magazine
in November
1887, after which it eventually became the final poem in the "First
Annex" titled "Sands at
Seventy." To the verso are pasted sections 16 and 18-19 of "Poem of Joys" (final title:
"A Song of Joys") clipped
either from the independent book
Passage
to India
(1871) or from the "Passage to India" supplement to
Leaves of Grass.
