“On which we stood triumphant now” (MS IX; Poems [1891];
Works [1903])—Collingwood comments that, following
“On which we stood triumphant now”, “two lines . . . are completely erased in the MS.”,
referring to the fair copy in
MS IX
(
Poems [4o, 1891],
1:127n.;
Poems [8o, 1891], 1:127n.).
In the gap between what we represent as a first and second stanza, the trace of a couplet is barely visible. No rough draft of the poem is extant to show what these lines might have been,
if not a duplication.