English: A handwritten draft dated 9 March 1887 of his 1865 poem "O Captain, My Captain!" by American poet Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. This is likely a souvenir draft.

This poem, originally published in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865-66) was included in Whitman's Leaves of Grass, the larger, comprehensive collection of his poetry beginning with its fourth edition in 1867. From: The Walt Whitman Archive. Editors. Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price. 18 April 2011 http://www.whitmanarchive.org.

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