1855 first line of stanza 5 read "Who need be afraid of the merge?" Dropped 1867.

Line 17, 1855: read "can never be" for "cannot be." Present reading 1867.

§ 8. [p. 41.]

Line 6, 1855: read "It is so-I witnessed the corpse-there the pistol had fallen." Present reading 1867.

Compare an early manuscript reading of this line:

The suicide went to a lonesome place with a pistol and killed himself,

I came that way and stumbled upon him."

Line 7, 1855: read "The blab of the pave-the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders." Present reading 1860 and 1881.

Line 9, 1855: read "The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs." Present reading 1856.

After line 14, 1855: read "The souls moving along are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?" 1856: read "while the least of the stones is visible." Dropped in 1867.

Line 15, 1855: read "who fall on the flags." Present reading 1856.

Line 19, 1855: read "I mind them or the resonance of them -I come again and again"; 1856: read "I come and I depart"; "or the show" added in 1860.

§ 10. [p. 43.]

Line 5, 1855: read "soundly" before "falling." Dropped 1867.

Line 6, 1855: read "under her three skysails" for "under her skysails." Present reading in 1871.

Line 12, 1855: read "sat near by" for "sat near." Present reading in 1856.

Line 13, 1855: read new line after "neck "One hand resting on his rifle-the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl." Present reading in 1867.