 The poem was published in two additional versions that were quite different from the version in "The Mills of the Kavanaughs".First, there was a magazine version of the poem that appeared in the "Kenyon Review" in 1951 prior to the publication of "The Mills of the Kavanaughs".The editors of Lowell's "Collected Poems" note that the magazine version included references to the Virgin Mary and Saint Patrick that Lowell later removed.