ABSTRACT
First publ. Hood’s Magazine i (June 1844) 513–14, during the crisis caused by the illness of its editor, Thomas Hood. Repr. B & P vii (DR & L), 6 Nov. 1845, paired with Confessional under the collective title France and Spain, and with the stanzas numbered; then 1849 (when the collective title was dropped, though the poem still appeared alongside Confessional), 1863 (when it was placed in Lyrics: see Appendix A, p. 464), 18632, 1868, 1872, 1888. Our text is Hood’s.
