... meandering shore” ... 1815.]
[Variant 69:
1836.
He swells his lifted chest,
and backward flings
His bridling neck between
his tow’ring wings;
Stately, and burning in his
pride, divides
And glorying looks around,
the silent tides:
On as he floats, the silver’d
waters glow,
Proud of the varying arch
and moveless form of snow. 1793.
... his towering wings;
In all the majesty of ease
divides, 1815.]
[Variant 70:
1845.
... her beauty’s pride Forgets, unweary’d watching every side, She calls them near, and with affection sweet Alternately relieves their weary feet; 1793.]
[Variant 71:
1836.
Long may ye roam
these hermit waves that sleep,
In birch-besprinkl’d
cliffs embosom’d deep;
These fairy holms untrodden,
still, and green,
Whose shades protect the hidden
wave serene;
Whence fragrance scents the
water’s desart gale,
The violet, and the [iii]
lily of the vale; 1793.
Long may ye float
upon these floods serene;
Yours be these holms untrodden,
still, and green,
Whose leafy shades fence off
the blustering gale,
Where breathes in peace the
lily of the vale. 1827.]
[Variant 72:
1820.
Where, tho’ her far-off
twilight ditty steal,
They not the trip of harmless
milkmaid feel. 1793.]
[Variant 73:
1836.
Yon tuft conceals your home,
your cottage bow’r.
Fresh water rushes strew the
verdant floor; 1793.
Yon isle conceals ... 1820.]
[Variant 74:
1836.
Thence issuing oft, unwieldly
as ye stalk,
Ye crush with broad black
feet your flow’ry walk; 1793.
Thence issuing often with
unwieldly stalk,
With broad black feet ye crush
your flow’ry walk; 1820.]
[Variant 75:
1820.
Safe from your door ye hear at breezy morn, 1793.]
[Variant 76:
1836.
... and mellow horn; At peace inverted your lithe necks ye lave, With the green bottom strewing o’er the wave; No ruder sound your desart haunts invades, Than waters dashing wild, or rocking shades. Ye ne’er, like hapless human wanderers, throw Your young on winter’s winding sheet of snow. 1793.
... and mellow horn; Involve your serpent necks in changeful rings, Rolled wantonly between your slippery wings, Or, starting up with noise and rude delight, Force half upon the wave your cumbrous flight. 1820.]
[Variant 77:
1836.