AT the end of the complete text will be found a shorter version based on
the original draft of the poem. This is included for the benefit of
reciters and their audiences who have found the entire poem too long for
declamation. I have tried to obviate a difficulty, without officiously
exercising the ungrateful prerogatives of a literary executor, by falling
back on a text which represents the author’s first scheme for a
poem—never intended of course for recitation.