1820
Shot, down the headlong pathway darts his sledge; 1793.]
[Variant 32:
1820.
Beside their sheltering [i]
cross of wall, the flock
Feeds on in light, nor thinks
of winter’s shock;
Only in the edition of 1793.]
[Variant 33:
1820.
Dashed down ... 1793.]
[Variant 34:
1836.
... verdant ... 1793.]
[Variant 35:
1820.
Gazed by ... 1793.]
[Variant 36:
1836.
... his warrior head. 1793.]
[Variant 37:
1836.
... haggard ... 1793.]
[Variant 38:
1836.
Whose state, like pine-trees,
waving to and fro,
Droops, and o’er canopies
his regal brow,
This couplet was inserted in the editions 1793 to 1832.]
[Variant 39:
1820.
... blows ... 1793.]
[Variant 40: This couplet was first printed in the edition of 1820.]
[Variant 41:
1836.
Bright’ning the cliffs
between where sombrous pine,
And yew-trees ...
1793.]
[Variant 42:
1836.
How busy the enormous hive within, 1793.]
[Variant 43:
1836.
... with the ... 1793.]
[Variant 44:
1836.
Some hardly heard their chissel’s clinking sound, 1793.]
[Variant 45:
1836.
... th’ aereal ... 1793.]
[Variant 46:
1815.
... viewless ... 1793.]
[Variant 47:
1836.
Glad from their airy baskets hang and sing. 1793.]
[Variant 48:
1836.
Hung o’er a cloud, above the steep that rears 1793.]
[Variant 49:
1820.
It’s ... 1793.]
[Variant 50:
1845.
And now it touches on the
purple steep
That flings his shadow on
the pictur’d deep. 1793.
That flings its image ... 1832.
And now the sun has touched
the purple steep
Whose softened image penetrates
the deep. 1836.]
[Variant 51:
1836.
The coves ... 1793]
[Variant 52:
1836.
The gilded turn arrays in
richer green
Each speck of lawn the broken
rocks between; 1793.
... invests with richer green 1820.]
[Variant 53:
1827.
... boles ... 1793.]
[Variant 54:
1827.
... in ... 1793.]
[Variant 55:
1836.