ABSTRACT

First publ. DP, 28 May 1864; repr. DP2, 1868, 1880, 1888. The MS, part of the printer’s copy for DP, is at Morgan. It is a fairly clean copy, with some denser patches of re-drafting. The title page is misbound, coming between pp. 6 and 7 of the MS of the poem itself. There are very few variants between 1864 and subsequent editions, and none are of major significance except the omission of l. 213.