ABSTRACT
First publ. DP, 28 May 1864; repr. DP2, 1865, 1868, 1872, 1888, the penultimate poem in the volume. The MS, part of the printer’s copy for DP, is at Morgan. The pages of the bound MS, from the title page of this poem to the end of the Epilogue, are numbered 1–11 in ink, and lack the pencil numbering of the rest of the MS, which suggests that they were added at a late stage. The MS is a very clean copy, with only two cancelled readings, and one variant from 1864. With just one punctuation variant in subsequent editions, this is the least-revised poem in the DP volume.
