Th’ unwearied sweep
of wood thy cliffs that scales;
The never-ending waters of
thy vales; 1815.]
[Variant 28:
1836.
Line 111 was previously three lines, thus—
The cots, those dim religious
groves embower,
Or, under rocks that from
the water tower
Insinuated, sprinkling all
the shore, 1815.]
[Variant 29:
1836.
... his ... 1815.]
[Variant 30:
1836.
Whose flaccid sails in forms
fantastic droop,
Bright’ning the gloom
where thick the forests stoop;
Only in the editions 1815 to 1832.]
[Variant 31:
1827.
... like swallows’ nests that cleave on high; 1815.]
[Variant 32:
1827.
While Evening’s solemn
bird melodious weeps,
Heard, by star-spotted bays,
beneath the steeps;
Only in the editions of 1815 and 1820.]
[Variant 33:
1836.
—Thy lake, mid smoking
woods, that blue and grey
Gleams, streaked or dappled,
hid from morning’s ray 1815.
As beautiful the flood where
blue or grey
Dappled, or streaked, as hid
from morning’s ray. C.]
[Variant 34:
1836.
... to fold 1815.]
[Variant 35:
1836.
From thickly-glittering spires
the matin bell
Calling the woodman from his
desert cell,
A summons to the sound of
oars, that pass,
Spotting the steaming deeps,
to early mass;
Slow swells the service o’er
the water born,
While fill each pause the
ringing woods of morn. 1815.
Calls forth the woodman with its cheerful knell. C.]
[Variant 36: This couplet was first added in 1845.]
[Variant 37:
1845.
Farewell those forms that
in thy noon-tide shade,
Rest, near their little plots
of wheaten glade; 1820.
Ye lovely forms that in the
noontide shade
Rest near their little plots
of wheaten glade. C.]
[Variant 38:
1845.
Those charms that bind ... 1820.]
[Variant 39:
1836.
And winds, ... 1820.]
[Variant 40:
1836.
Yet arts are thine
that soothe the unquiet heart,
And smiles to Solitude and
Want impart.
I lov’d, ’mid
thy most desart woods astray,
With pensive step to measure
my slow way,
By lonely, silent cottage-doors
to roam,
The far-off peasant’s
day-deserted home. 1820.
I loved by silent cottage-doors
to roam,
The far-off peasant’s
day-deserted home; 1827.
These two lines take the place of the second and third couplets of the 1820 text quoted above.]