[Variant 151:
1836.
For ye are drawing tow’rd
that sacred floor,
Where the charmed worm of
pain shall gnaw no more. 1820.
While they are drawing toward the sacred floor 1827.]
[Variant 152:
1827.
... for you ... 1820.]
[Variant 153:
1836.
—Now with a tearful kiss
each other greet,
Nor longer naked be your toil-worn
feet, 1820.
There some with tearful kiss
each other greet,
And some, with reverence,
wash their toil-worn feet. 1827.]
[Variant 154:
1836.
Yes I will see you when you first behold 1820.
... ye ... 1827.]
[Variant 155: This couplet was added in 1836.]
[Variant 156:
1836.
... the hands ... 1820.]
[Variant 157:
1836.
Last let us turn to where Chamouny shields, 1820.]
[Variant 158:
1827.
Bosomed in gloomy woods, ... 1820.]
[Variant 159:
1836.
Here lawns and shades by breezy
rivulets fann’d,
Here all the Seasons revel
hand in hand. 1820.]
[Variant 160:
1836.
—Red stream the cottage-lights;
the landscape fades,
Erroneous wavering mid the
twilight shades.
Inserted in the editions 1820 to 1832.]
[Variant 161:
1836.
Alone ascends that Mountain named of white, 1820.
Alone ascends that Hill of matchless height, 1827.]
[Variant 162:
1836.
... amid ... 1820.]
[Variant 163:
1836.
Mysterious ... 1820.]
[Variant 164:
1836.
... ’mid ... 1820.]
[Variant 165:
1836.
At such an hour I heaved a
pensive sigh,
When roared the sullen Arve
in anger by, 1820.]
[Variant 166:
1836.
... delicious ... 1820.]
[Variant 167:
1836.
Hard lot!—for no
Italian arts are thine
To cheat, or chear, to soften,
or refine. 1820.
To soothe or cheer, ... 1827.]
[Variant 168:
1836.
Beloved Freedom! were it mine
to stray,
With shrill winds roaring
... 1820.]
[Variant 169:
1836.
O’er ... 1820.]
[Variant 170:
1836.
(Compressing four lines into two.)
... o’er Lugano blows; In the wide ranges of many a varied round, Fleet as my passage was, I still have found That where proud courts their blaze of gems display, The lilies of domestic joy decay, 1820.
That where despotic courts their gems display, 1827.]