Parts I (‘You dowagers with Roman noses’) and II (‘Call him Prince Alpha if you wish’) from the first version of the poem (The Witnesses) are replaced in this later version by four stanzas starting “Young men late in the night …”.
These four stanzas are followed by eight stanzas from ‘What had he done to be treated thus?’; stanzas 2 (“You are the town, and we are the clock,”), 3, 4, 6, 7 (starting “We’re” instead of earlier “For”), 8, 9 and 10.
Locations in Harold's Library
- W. H. Auden: Collected Poems (book)
- page 75
This work has the following connections with other works:
- The Witnesses • Different versions, with only 8 stanzas from the 29 stanza original remaining in later version
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