Date
	September1826–January 1827, most likely toward the end of that period. There is a possibility of the poem dating from as early as January1826. 
	Favoring early 1826, E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn argue for “When furious up from mines the water pours” as “the authors first piece”—or first surviving poem, at least—on the grounds that Ruskin assigns it the number I in the MS I poetry anthology (Ruskin, Works, 2:254 n. 3, 255 n. 1). As discussed in “The Needless Alarm”: Date, however, this argument requires one to ignore the plain evidence of an annotation by Margaret Ruskin, which assigns “The Needless Alarm” to January 1826, thus awarding that poem priority.
	On internal evidence, “When furious up from mines the water pours” is more logically placed in late 1826 or early 1827, when, according to another annotation by Margaret, Ruskin finished this red book (see “The Needless Alarm”: Date). The content of the poem is closely associated with the source of the concluding chapters of “Harry and Lucy . . . vol. 1,” and it would therefore have sprung from a common inspiration at that time.