PART I.First Drafts and Rejected Lines and from " Leaves of Grass," the 1855Passages, Mostly very Fragmentary, Largely Antecedent to Edition.1¥ AM become a shroud ;I wrap a body and lie in the coffin with it.It is dark there underground ;It is not evil or pain there, it is the absence of all that is good.Now it seems to me that everything in the light above must be happy, Whoever is not in his coffin, and the dark grave let him know he has enough.The retrospective ecstacy is upon me, now my spirit burns volcanic ; The earth recedes ashamed before my prophetical crisis.*2Osirus-to give forms.I am he who finds nothing more divine than simple and natural things are divine.3Remembrances I plant American ground with, Lessons to think I scatter as they come. I perceive that myriads of men and women never think, I perceive that e'er visible effects can come, thought must come, I perceive that sages, poets, inventors, benefactors, lawgivers, are only those who haTable of Contents CONTENTS; EDITOR'S PREFACE,; PART I; First Drafts and Rejected Lines and Passages, Mostly very Fragmentary, from "Leaves of Grass," Largely Antecedent to the 1855 Edition,; PART II; Notes on the Meaning and Intention of " Leaves of Grass," - - 55; PART III; Memoranda from Books and from His Own Reflections, Indicating the Poet's Reading and Thought Preparatory to Writing '' Leaves of Grass," - - - - - 75; PART IV; Shorter Notes, Isolated Words, Brief Sentences, Memoranda, Suggestive; Expressions, Names and Dates, - - - 151; PART V; Notes on English History, - - - - - 181; PART VI; A List of Certain Magazines and Newspaper Articles Studied and Preserved by Walt Whitman and Found Among His Papers, 193About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publis