The Walt Whitman Archive
In Whitman's Hand
Manuscripts
About this Item
Title: some threading Ohio's
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: 1881
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00082
Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This manuscript, written in 1881, is a draft of lines published in the poem "As Consequent, Etc." The poem was published first in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass.
Related item: The back of this manuscript leaf is a letter to Whitman from the Camden and Atlantic Railroad dated January 25, 1881. See loc.05170.
Contributors to digital file: Nick Krauter, Matt Miller, Nicole Gray, Andrew Jewell, Kenneth Price, and Brett Barney
[begin leaf 1 recto] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
![[Page image: https://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/figures/loc.00082.001.jpg]](https://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/figures/loc.00082.001.jpg)
Rivulets, some
meandering
threading
through
Ohio's
the
fields farm-fields, or
in the woods
Some flowing down fr
as from
Colorado's
mountains
cañons,
their
from
from
sources
the
of
of
eternal snow,
Some to the north finding
their way to Michigan,
Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,
Some to the bays Atlantics bays,
and so to the great salt
sea
brine.
Some
to
with
in their
half‑hid threads in
Oregon,—or
southward in Texas,
[begin leaf 1 verso] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
![[Page image: https://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/figures/loc.00082.002.jpg]](https://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/figures/loc.00082.002.jpg)