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MANUSCRIPTS: This poem survives in five fair copies, three of the first version, two of the second. A sixth copy (a third copy of the second version) is discussed below. The copy of the first version reproduced above (Bingham) was written about 1864 and sent to Dr. and Mrs. Holland. It is signed "Emily-." A second copy of the same version (Bingham 106-8), identical in text, form, and signature, was written at the same time and sent to an unidentified recipient. A third copy of the first version (H 356), written about 1870, is addressed "Sue" and signed "Emily." It is variant in two lines:
9. Street] StreetsPUBLICATION: Poems (1891), 158-159, titled "A Thunder-Storm." It follows the text of the second version reproduced above, with two words seemingly adopted from the first version:
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