Twenty Years After Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the "idea" of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–1651), with Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of "The Three Musketeers", has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt
Sequel to Drum-Taps to Drum-Taps" and bore the subtitle "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd and other poems". The title poem, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", filled the first nine pages. In October, after the pamphlet was printed, Whitman travelled to Brooklyn to collate and bind them into copies of "Drum-Taps". Whitman added the poems from "Drum-Taps" and "Sequel to Drum-Taps" as a supplement to the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass printed in 1867 by William E. Chapin. The collection consisted of 18 poems, in the following order: Sequel to Drum-Taps Sequel to Drum-Taps, subtitled When Lilacs Last in