ABSTRACT
First publ. DP, 28 May 1864; repr. DP2, 1868, 1880, 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 cancelled readings. There are only a few verbal variants between MS and 1864 (mostly towards the end of the poem) and none in subsequent editions; all are minor, and the only significant textual change is in the speech-punctuation of ll. 99–100, where the re-positioning of quotation marks changes the way in which the speaker brings to a close her speculative ‘voicing’ of her companion’s thoughts when they met ten years before.
