Written probably in
1754 or
1755
.
First printed privately in 1774. First published, in two versions, among
the notes to the poems, entitled
Ode, On the
Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, and as Ode in
Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 78-81 (with
Mason's additions) and 236-237 (ll. 1-48 only) respectively.