ABSTRACT
First publ. DP. 28 May 1864; repr. DP2, 1865, 1868, 1872, 1888. Our text is 1864. The MS, part of the printer’s copy for DP, is at Morgan. It is a very clean copy, with few cancellations. Preserved with MS is a loose slip of semi-transparent paper with pencil readings not in B.’s hand (MS slip): these refer to six of the lines revised from MS in 1864 and are noted where they occur. Verbal variants between MS and 1864 are relatively numerous in comparison with other DP poems, though mostly minor; only one verbal variant (at l. 87) was introduced in subsequent editions.
