ABSTRACT
First publ. M & W, 10 Nov. 1855; repr. 1863 (when it was placed in ‘Men, and Women’: see Appendix D, p. 747), 18632, 1868, 1872, 1888. Our text is 1855. Revision after 1855 was generally light, although B. made more substantive changes than usual in the two volumes of selections in which the poem appeared (18632 and 1872), perhaps indicating his continuing regard for it.
