A 515: etext transcription

This extrageneric fragment, by itself an autonomous lyric throe, appears as a variant trace (text altered) in two versions—A 514 and A 516—of a poem-draft beginning, "We | talked with | each other | about each | other" ("We talked with | each other about | each other"), and both composed around 1879 (THJ, RWF). Here the fragment-trace appears in the middle of the poem-draft, rather than at the poem-draft's opening or closing, as is more usual. It may have been composed after the initial rough-copy draft (A 514) and before the second, intermediate-copy draft (A 516), since the second draft reflects at least one textual change introduced in the fragment.