The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]
[Variant 7:
1819.
Listen! you can hardly hear!
Now he has left the lower ground,
And up the hill his course is bending,
With many a stop and stay ascending;—1836.
The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]
[Variant 8:
1836.
And now ... 1819.]
[Variant 9:
1836.
Gathering ... 1819.]
[Variant 10:
1819.
No;—him infirmities beset,
But danger is not near him yet;
1836.
The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]
[Variant 11:
1836.
is he secure; 1819.]
[Variant 12:
1836.
full well 1819.]
[Variant 13:
1836.
Uncouth although the object be,
An image of perplexity;
Yet not the less it is our boast, 1819.]
[Variant 14:
1827.
... I frame ... 1819.]
[Variant 15:
1836
And never was my heart more light. 1819.]
[Variant 16:
1836.
... will bless ... 1819.]
[Variant 17:
1836.
... delight, ... 1819.]
[Variant 18:
1836.
Good proof of this the Country gain’d,
One day, when ye were vex’d and
strain’d—
Entrusted to another’s care,
And forc’d unworthy stripes to bear.
1819.]
[Variant 19:
1836. (Expanding four lines into six.)
Here was it—on this rugged
spot
Which now contented with our lot
We climb—that piteously abused
Ye plung’d in anger and confused:
1819.]
[Variant 20:
1836.
... in your ... 1819.]
[Variant 21:
1836.
The ranks were taken with one mind; 1819.]
[Variant 22:
1819.
Our road be, narrow, steep, and rough; 1836.
The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]
[Variant 23:
1836.
large drops upon his head 1819.]
[Variant 24:
1836.
He starts-and, at the admonition,
Takes a survey of his condition.
1819.]
[Variant 25:
1836.
A huge and melancholy room, 1819.]
[Variant 26:
1836.
... on high ... 1819.]
[Variant 27: 1836. The previous four lines were added in the edition of 1820, where they read as follows:
And suddenly a ruffling breeze
(That would have sounded through the trees
Had aught of sylvan growth been there)
Was felt throughout the region bare:
1820.]
[Variant 28: