The sole MS witness to this fragment is in Mary Copybk 1 p. 45. Mary copied it on that page between transcriptions of Così la Poesia, incarnata diva (no. 395 Appendix), likewise a poem for which there is no extant holograph MS, and the opening of To Emilia Viviani (no. 393). Given that the sources of Mary’s copies of the latter two poems were almost certainly S.’s drafts in Nbk 20 (see the headnotes concerned), it seems very likely that a now lost leaf, or leaves, from Nbk 20 provided her with S.’s holograph of these lines. First published in Rossetti 1870, Forman 1876–7 (iv 119 n. 1) states that this fragment and I faint, I perish with my love–I grow (no. 372) ‘were given by Mr. Rossetti from copies of MSS. at Boscombe, furnished by Mr. Garnett’. The two poems were probably among the ‘scraps extracted by Garnett’ mentioned in Rossetti’s letter to William Allingham of 12 March 1869 as he was preparing Rossetti 1870 for the press (Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (1990), 206; see also his letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne of 14 March 1869, 208).