Drum-Taps' Revisions

The following encoding and transcription alterations were made to the "Drum-Taps" section of the 1867 version of Leaves of Grass:

2. Poem "Drum Taps," p. 71a, linegroup 7, line 1: "preceeding" should read "preceding."

3. Poem "By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame," p. 16a, line 4: ends with a semicolon, not a colon.

4. Poem "From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird," p. 18a: Title has a linebreak after "fly."

5. Poem "From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird," code error: "Michgan" should be "Michigan" in the following line of code:
<seg>To Kanada, 'till I absorb Kanada in myself&#8212;to <orig reg="Michgan">Michi-</orig></
seg>

6. Poem "The Centenarian's Story," p. 19a: Title should have a line break after "The"

7. Poem "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" p. 25a: Title should have a line break after the first "Pioneers!"

8. Poem "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" p. 25a and onward: The first line of each linegroup should be indented.

9. Poem "Rise O Days from your Fathomless Deeps," p. 35a Title should have a linebreak after "Fathom-"

10. Poem "Come up from the fields father," p. 36a: Title should have a linebreak after "fields"

11. Poem "Years of the Unperform'd," p.53a, line 1, seg 2: "august" should not be capitalized.

12. Poem "Year that Trembled and Reel'd beneath me," p. 54a, line 4: Line should end in a semicolon rather than a colon.


13. Poem "Hymn of Dead Soldiers," p. 59a, linegroup 9, line 1: "O love" – the "O" should be capitalized.

14. Poem "Hymn of Dead Soldiers," p. 59a, linegroup 5, line 1 "closer yet;" – The line should end with a semicolon rather than a colon.  In the online page image, it looks like a colon (but it's a bit fuzzy), but I've confirmed with our 1867 edition that it's a semicolon (at least in our copy).

15. Poem "Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd," p. 67a.  The title should have a linebreak after second "the."

1. Poem "Song of the Banner at Day-Break," p.16a, line 4, segment 2: "house" should be "houses"

2. Poem "Bivouac on a Mountain Side," p.70a, line 4, segment 2: there should be a comma, rather than a semicolon, after "shapes"

3. Poem "When Lilacs in the Door-Yard Bloom'd" p.11b, section 18, linegroup 38, line 4, segment 1: "you" should be "yon"

4. Poem "O Captain! My Captain!" p.13b, all linegroups: the last four lines of each stanza should be progressively indented.  (Looking at the image will explain what I mean.)  I wasn't sure how to encode this, so the same error exists on the code for the 1865 Drum Taps with Sequel.

5. Poem "Spirit Whose Work Is Done" p.14b, line 16, segment 1: "Leave me pulses of rage!" should be "Leave me your pulses of rage!"

6. Poem "As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap, Camerado" p.19b, Title: There should be a linebreak before "Camerado."

7. Poem "In Clouds Descending, In Midnight Sleep," p.20a: The last line of each stanza—"I dream, I dream, I dream."—is not a line segment, as it appears here, but rather a new line with unique indentation.  The indentation of these lines is slightly shorter than the indentation of the second segment of a long line.

8. Poem "Dirge for Two Veterans," p.21a: The first and last lines of each linegroup should be indented.  Again, I wasn't sure how to encode this, so the same error exists on the code for the 1865 Drum Taps with Sequel.

~Joshua

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