With bowl in hand,
       (It may not stand)
  Gladdest of the gladsome band,
  Amid their own delight and fun, 1819.

    With bowl that sped from hand to hand,
  Refreshed, brimful of hearty fun,
  The gladdest of the gladsome band, 1836.]

[Variant 44: 

1836.

  They hear—­when every fit is o’er—­1819.]

[Variant 45: 

1836.

  ... wondrous ... 1819.]

[Variant 46: 

1836.

  ... these ... 1819.]

[Variant 47: 

1836.

  ... the Mastiff’s side,
  (The Mastiff not well pleased to be
  So very near such company.) 1819.]

[Variant 48: 

1832.

  ... all together, ... 1819.]

[Variant 49: 

1836

  ... sails ... 1819.]

[Variant 50: 

1836.

  On ... 1819.]

[Variant 51: 

1836.

  He’s in the height ... 1819.]

[Variant 52: 

1836.

  He wheel’d—... 1819.]

[Variant 53: 

1827.

  And, rambling on ... 1819.]

[Variant 54: 

1819.

  Now hidden by the glittering steam:  1836.

The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]

[Variant 55: 

1845.  The previous eight lines were added in 1836, when they read thus: 

  Say more:  for by that power a vein
  Seems opened of brow-saddening pain: 
  As if their hearts by notes were stung
  From out the lowly hedge-rows flung;
  As if the warbler lost in light
  Reproved their soarings of the night;
  In strains of rapture pure and holy
  Upbraided their distempered folly. 1836.]

[Variant 56: 

1845.

  They are drooping, weak, and dull; 1819.

  Drooping are they, and weak and dull;—­1836.]

[Variant 57: 

1836.

  Knowing that there’s cause ... 1819.

  Knowing there is cause ... 1827.]

[Variant 58: 

1845.

  They are labouring to avert
  At least a portion of the blame 1819.

  They now are labouring to avert
  (Kind creatures!) something of the blame, 1836.]

[Variant 59: 

1836.

  Which full surely will alight
  Upon his head, whom, in despite
  Of all his faults, they love the best; 1819.

  Upon his head, ... 1820.]

[Variant 60: 

1836.

  Blends ... 1819.]

[Variant 61: 

1845.

  Never, surely, old Apollo,
  He, or other God as old,
  Of whom in story we are told,
  Who had a favourite to follow
  Through a battle or elsewhere,
  Round the object of his care,
  In a time of peril, threw
  Veil of such celestial hue; 1819.