1836.

    Now o’er the eastern hill, ... 1793.

    See, o’er ... 1815.]

[Variant 95: 

1836.

    She lifts in silence up her lovely face; 1793.]

[Variant 96: 

1836.

    Above ... 1793.]

[Variant 97: 

1815.

    ... silvery ... 1793.]

[Variant 98: 

1815.

    ... golden ... 1793.]

[Variant 99: 

1836.

    The deepest dell the mountain’s breast displays, 1793.

    ... the mountain’s front ... 1820.]

[Variant 100: 

1836.

    The scene is waken’d, yet its peace unbroke,
    By silver’d wreaths of quiet charcoal smoke,
    That, o’er the ruins of the fallen wood,
    Steal down the hills, and spread along the flood. 1793.]

[Variant 101: 

1836.

    All air is, as the sleeping water, still,
    List’ning th’ aereal music of the hill, 1793.

    Air listens, as the sleeping water still,
    To catch the spiritual music of the hill, 1832.]

[Variant 102: 

1836.

    Soon follow’d by his hollow-parting oar,
    And echo’d hoof approaching the far shore; 1793.]

[Variant 103: 

1836.

    ... the feeding ... 1793.]

[Variant 104: 

1836.

    The tremulous sob of the complaining owl; 1793.]

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FOOTNOTES ON VARIANTS (Sub-Footnotes)

[Sub-Footnote i:  These rude structures, to protect the flocks, are frequent in this country:  the traveller may recollect one in Withburne, another upon Whinlatter.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Sub-Footnote ii:  Not far from Broughton is a Druid monument, of which I do not recollect that any tour descriptive of this country makes mention.  Perhaps this poem may fall into the hands of some curious traveller, who may thank me for informing him, that up the Duddon, the river which forms the aestuary at Broughton, may be found some of the most romantic scenery of these mountains.—­W.  W. 1793.

This circle is at the top of Swinside, a glen about four miles from Broughton.  It consists of 50 stones, 90 yards in circumference; and is on the fell, which is part of the range terminating in Black Combe.—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote iii:  The lily of the valley is found in great abundance in the smaller islands of Winandermere.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Sub-Footnote iv:  In the 1793 edition this line reads “Asleep on Minden’s charnel plain afar.”  The ‘errata’, list inserted in some copies of that edition gives “Bunker’s charnel hill.”—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote v:  Sugh, a Scotch word, expressive, as Mr. Gilpin explains it, of the sound of the motion of a stick through the air, or of the wind passing through the trees.  See Burns’ ’Cottar’s Saturday Night’.—­W.  W. 1793.