23. 
And in the moonless nights when the dun ocean 130
Heaved underneath wide heaven, star-impearled,
Starting from dreams... 
Communed with the immeasurable world;
And felt his life beyond his limbs dilated,
Till his mind grew like that it contemplated. 135

24. 
His food was the wild fig and strawberry;
The milky pine-nuts which the autumn-blast
Shakes into the tall grass; or such small fry
As from the sea by winter-storms are cast;
And the coarse bulbs of iris-flowers he found 140
Knotted in clumps under the spongy ground.

25. 
And so were kindled powers and thoughts which made
His solitude less dark.  When memory came
(For years gone by leave each a deepening shade),
His spirit basked in its internal flame,—­ 145
As, when the black storm hurries round at night,
The fisher basks beside his red firelight.

26. 
Yet human hopes and cares and faiths and errors,
Like billows unawakened by the wind,
Slept in Marenghi still; but that all terrors, 150
Weakness, and doubt, had withered in his mind. 
His couch...

...

27. 
And, when he saw beneath the sunset’s planet
A black ship walk over the crimson ocean,—­
Its pennon streaming on the blasts that fan it, 155
Its sails and ropes all tense and without motion,
Like the dark ghost of the unburied even
Striding athwart the orange-coloured heaven,—­

28.  The thought of his own kind who made the soul Which sped that winged shape through night and day,—­ 160 The thought of his own country...

...

NOTES:  3 Who B.; Or 1870. 6 Marenghi’s 1870; Mazenghi’s B. 7 town 1870; sea B. 8 ruined 1870; squalid B. (’the whole line is cancelled,’ Locock). 11 threw 1870; cancelled, B. 17 A Sacrament more B.; At Sacrament:  more 1870. 18 mid B.; with 1870. 19 forests when...  B.; forests. 1870. 23, 24 that band Of free and glorious brothers who had 1870; omitted, B. 25 a 1870; one B. 27 wise, just—­do they 1870; omitted, B. 28 Does 1870; Doth B. prey 1870; spoil B. 33 angel 1824; Herald [?] B. 34 to welcome thee 1824; cancelled for... by thee B. 42 direst 1824; Desert B. 45 sits amid 1824 amid cancelled for soils (?) B. 53-57 Albert...sent B.; omitted 1824, 1870.  Albert cancelled B.: 
     Pietro is the correct name.
53 Marenghi]Mazenghi B. 55 farm doubtful:  perh. fame (Locock). 62 he 1824; thus B. 70 Amid the mountains 1824; Mid desert mountains [?] B. 71 toil, and cold]cold and toil editions 1824, 1839. 92, 93 And... there B. (see Editor’s Note); White bones, and locks of
    dun and yellow hair, And ringed horns which buffaloes did wear—­ 1870.