No autograph copy of this poem survives; the text given here follows Mabel Loomis Todd's transcript of the poem. In Todd's transcript the first stanza of the poem appears at the bottom of the page; the stanza is circled, and an arrow extending from the bracketed text to the top of the page indicates its proper position. For a related fragment, see A 295 (about 1874 [RWF], last decade [THJ]).