Abt Vogler (after he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention)

First publ. DP, 28 May 1864; repr. DP², 1865, 1868, 1872, 1888. Our text is 1864. The MS, part of the printer’s copy for DP, is at Morgan. It has a good deal of overwriting and some deletions and re-drafting, but is clearly a fair copy of an earlier draft. There are few variants between its text and that of 1864; the text is virtually unchanged in subsequent editions, with only a handful of changes in punctuation and the change (standard in 1868) to lower-case for the divine pronoun (‘He’, ‘Thee’, ‘Thou’, etc.; note however that the ‘ineffable Name’ of ll. 7 and 65 remained in upper-case).