LITERARY ALERT: CAN YOU FIND SOME LOST POETRY BY HERMAN MELVILLE?

On 17 June 1877 Melville's sister Fanny wrote to their first cousin Kate Gansevoort Lansing (Mrs. Abraham Lansing): " (Did he [Abe] receive the paper containing those lines by Herman?" NYPL-GL Box 220

"Lines" in this context ought to mean lines of poetry. The implication is that Melville had published some poetry (in a newspaper? or less likely in a magazine?) shortly before 17 June 1877.

So far I have not found any such lines in any database available to me. A poem Melville had been looking over in recent months, and copying out for his brother-in-law John Hoadley, was "The Age of the Antonines." Did he take it to a NYC newspaper, or send it out?

I called attention to this question of Fanny's in my biography of Melville (2.816) in the hope that someone would find the missing lines.

It could still take an honored place in the final Northwestern-Newberry volume, now (unbelievably) in active process.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!