Composition and Publication

	Hand is pencil, print (made prior to first use of pen and ink in April 1827). See Note on Ruskin’s Hand.
	Excerpt quoted by Ruskin in Ruskin, Works, 35:57; also quoted in Poems (4o, 1891), 1:xxi; Poems (8o, 1891), 1:viii; and Ruskin, Works, 2:254. Previously unpublished in entirety.