The Patriot

First publ. M & W, 10 Nov. 1855; repr. 1863 (when it was placed in ‘Romances’: see Appendix D, p. 747), 1865², 1868, 1880, 1888. Our text is 1855. In H proof the title is ‘The Old Story’ and there is no subtitle, although the running title changes from ‘The Old Story’ on p. 192 (erroneously numbered 208) to ‘The Patriot’ on p. 193, the first page of signature O. In 1855 the table of contents gives the title as ‘The Patriot.—An Old Story’ but the poem itself has the title and subtitle as here.