The text of 1805 returns to that of 1800.]

[Variant 20: 

1805.

  When I, in thoughtlessness and pride,
  Had crossed ... 1802.

  When first, in confidence and pride,
  I crossed ... 1820.

C., and the edition of 1840, revert to the reading of 1805.]

[Variant 21: 

1840 and C.

  “It was a fresh and glorious world,
  A banner bright that was unfurled
  Before me suddenly:  1805.

  A banner bright that shone unfurled 1836.]

[Variant 22:  Lines 163-168, and 175-180, were added in 1802.  Lines 169-174 were added in 1805.  All these were omitted in 1815, but were restored in 1820.]

[Variant 23: 

1845

  So was it then, and so is now: 
  For, Ruth! with thee I know not how
  I feel my spirit burn 1802.

  “But wherefore speak of this? for now,
  Sweet Ruth! with thee, ... 1805.

  Dear Ruth! with thee ... 1836.]

[Variant 24: 

1836.

  Even as the east when day comes forth;
  And to the west, and south, and north, 1802.]

[Variant 25: 

  It is my purer better mind
  O maiden innocently kind
  What sights I might have seen! 
  Even now upon my eyes they break! 
  And then the youth began to speak
  Of lands where he had been.  MS.]

[Variant 26: 

1845.

  But now the pleasant dream was gone, 1800.

  Full soon that purer mind ... 1820.]

[Variant 27: 

1836.

  And there, exulting in her wrongs,
  Among the music of her songs
  She fearfully carouz’d. [b] 1800.

  And there she sang tumultuous songs,
  By recollection of her wrongs,
  To fearful passion rouzed. 1820.]

[Variant 28: 

1836.

  wild brook ... 1800.]

[Variant 29: 

1802.

  And to the pleasant Banks of Tone
  She took her way, to dwell alone 1800.]

[Variant 30: 

1802.

  ... grief, ... 1800.]

[Variant 31: 

1805.

  (And in this tale we all agree) 1800.]

[Variant 32: 

1805.

  The neighbours grieve for her, and say
  That she will ... 1802.]

[Variant 33:  This stanza first appeared in the edition of 1802.]

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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A:  Taken from the portrait of the chief in Bartram’s frontispiece.—­Ed.]

[Footnote B: 

“The tall aspiring Gordonia lacianthus ... gradually changing colour, from green to golden yellow, from that to a scarlet, from scarlet to crimson, and lastly to a brownish purple, ... so that it may be said to change and renew its garments every morning throughout the year.”

See ’Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East Florida, the Cherokee Country’, etc., by William Bartram (1791), pp. 159, 160.—­Ed.]