Famous Single Poems
and Triumph, which he published at Washington in 1883, "There Is No Death" being the first poem. Here he says it was written late in the fall of 1862, and the next spring was sent to Arthur's Home Magazine of Philadelphia, appearing in the issue for July, 1863. "One E. Bulmer, of Illinois, copied it, signed his own name to it, and sent it (as his own) to the Farmer's Advocate, Chicago. The editor of some Wisconsin paper clipped it"—and changed Bulmer to Bulwer as aforesaid.
The third version appeared in the Annals of Iowa (New Series, Vol I, page 196) for October, 1893. It is much more elaborate than either of the others—and also probably much more imaginative. He reviews at length the mental processes which, during a long drive behind a slow horse, led up to the idea of the poem, the first four lines of which, he says, came to him "in their completeness." He labored at the poem during the following days, and finally evolved ten stanzas. This, he states, was in February or March, 1863. He sent the poem to Arthur's Home Magazine, which published it in the issue for July, 1863, and he gives volume and page (Vol 22, page 41). He copied it in his own paper, The Delaware County Journal, and sent a marked copy to a friend of his, John H. Moore, of Dixon, Illinois, who worked on a paper called the Telegraph, and who reprinted
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