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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

 transcription 2a & transcription 2b

Notes

 H 203c & H 203d | JP 216 | FP 124 

1861-62 | Ink, blue-ruled  | Watermark/Embossment: N (None)

20 x 13 cm.

Emily and Susan may well have had more exchanges regarding the completion of "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers," yet nothing more survives, except for versions that were copied into F 6 (H 11c) and F 10 (H 203c, 203d). F 10 offers three different second stanzas for the poem. Susan has marked these with an "X."

For Poems (1890), Higginson and Loomis Todd made a three-stanza poem using the "Light laughs the breeze" and the "Grand go the Years" stanzas.