ABSTRACT

Published 1855. There are two drafts of the second stanza in T.Nbk 25, immediately following the MS of the Ode on Wellington (1852); T. probably considered using these lines as part of the Ode, with which the first stanza too has affinities. A MS of the second stanza only is at the University of Sydney (all variants from the MSS are below). H.T. relates the second stanza to T.’s religious thinking, especially that of The Vision of Sin (Mem. i 322).