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MANUSCRIPT: There are three autograph copies of this poem, all written late in 1871. The copy reproduced above is in packet 95-13 (Bingham). The copy to T. W. Higginson (BPL Higg 26) was one of four poems enclosed in a letter (BPL Higg 74) written in October or November. The text is identical with that of the packet copy. Minor differences of form are that lines 5 and 8 are without punctuation; commas follow "dwell" (line 6) and "subsist" (line 7). A copy of the first stanza only to Sue (H 322) is in pencil, signed "Emily-." Its third line is a variant:
Step lightly on this narrow spot -PUBLICATION: Poems (1891), 185, titled "Epitaph." It follows the text of the packet copy. One word is altered: 5. be] is
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