[Variant 102:
1845.
Then Summer lengthened out
his season bland,
And with rock-honey flowed
the happy land. 1815.
Then Summer lingered long;
and honey flowed
Out of the rocks, the wild
bees’ safe abode. 1836.]
[Variant 103:
1836.
Continual fountains ... 1815.]
[Variant 104:
1836.
Nor Hunger forced the herds
from pastures bare
For scanty food the treacherous
cliffs to dare. 1815.]
[Variant 105:
1836.
Then the milk-thistle bade
those herds demand
Three times a day the pail
and welcome hand. 1815.]
[Variant 106:
1836.
Thus does the father to his
sons relate,
On the lone mountain top,
their changed estate. 1815.]
[Variant 107:
1836.
But human vices have provoked the rod 1815.
In the editions 1815-1832 this and the following line preceded lines 399-400. They took their final position in the edition of 1836.]
[Variant 108:
1836.
... whose vales and mountains round 1820.]
[Variant 109:
1836.
(Compressing eight lines into six.)
... to awful silence bound. A gulf of gloomy blue, that opens wide And bottomless, divides the midway tide. Like leaning masts of stranded ships appear The pines that near the coast their summits rear; Of cabins, woods, and lawns a pleasant shore Bounds calm and clear the chaps still and hoar; Loud thro’ that midway gulf ascending, sound Unnumber’d streams with hollow roar profound: 1820.]
[Variant 110:
1836.
Mount thro’ the nearer
mist the chaunt of birds,
And talking voices, and the
low of herds,
The bark of dogs, the drowsy
tinkling bell,
And wild-wood mountain lutes
of saddest swell. 1820.]
[Variant 111:
1836.
Think not, suspended from
the cliff on high,
He looks below with undelighted
eye. 1820.]
[Variant 112: This couplet was added in the edition of 1836.]
[Variant 113:
1836.
—No vulgar joy is his,
at even tide
Stretch’d on the scented
mountain’s purple side. 1820.]
[Variant 114:
1836.
While Hope, that ceaseless leans on Pleasure’s urn, 1820.]
[Variant 115:
1836.
... by vestal ... 1820.]
[Variant 116:
1836.
... native ... 1820.]
[Variant 117:
1832.
He marches with his flute, his book, and sword; 1820.]
[Variant 118:
1845.
... wonderous ... 1820.]
[Variant 119: