Song

There is an untitled fair copy of this well-known political song in S.’s hand in Box 1 ff. 75^v–76^r, on pages originally part of Harvard Nbk 1 from which they were torn out. See headnotes to To —— Lines to a Critic (no. 335) and To —— Lines to a Reviewer (no. 305). Mary transcribed S.’s fair copy into Mary Copybk 2 and published it in 1839 with the present title (see note to title). The only drafts of the poem as published in 1839 that are known to survive are versions of ll. 29–30 and 32 in Nbk 14 pp. 8, 17. On the latter page S. also drafted what appears to be a discarded stanza intended for the Song, apparently to follow l. 28.