From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Nine regular ten-line stanzas, rhyming a, b, a, b, c, c, d, e, e, d. First printed in "La Psyché," October, 1826.
It is the eighth piece, pp. 67 to 74, of the MS. "Préludes Poétiques," and was there dedicated to "Mon Ami Frédéric Soulié."
It is reprinted in Glinel's "Alexandre Dumas et Son Œuvre," from " La Psyché."
In his MS. collection Glinel points out five variants between the two texts.
