Work Metadata

Manuscript

Two, variant, about 1872. On one, a pencil draft, ed set down a large number of alternatives for the second stanza (a 114).

Notes

Two, variant, about 1872. On one, a pencil draft, ed set down a large number of alternatives for the second stanza (a114).

Textual Notes

(In order on manuscript)
7] And rode Immensity
7] And rode deriding by -
5 sprang lightly to the sky] Absconded daintily - • [Absconded] fluently
6]
5-7 sprang . . . away]
7] And gaily galloped by -
6-7]
5 sprang lightly to the sky] As speculations flee
6]
5-6 sprang . . . stirrup]
7] And rode immensity
Division
1 a |
3 his |
5 sprang |
6 accustomed |
Division
1 took |
2 it |
3 because |
4 handed |
6 the |

7 little |
8 forfeited |

Publications

BM (1945), 64, as two quatrains, from the worksheet (A), with the last two alternatives adopted. Poems (1955), 844-45 (A as two quatrains, B principal); CP (1960), 534 (B). (J1211)