The verdant pathway, in and out, Winds upwards like a straggling chain; And, when two toilsome miles are past, Up through the rocks it leads at last Into a high and open plain.]
[Variant 76:
1827.
The ... 1819.]
[Variant 77:
1836.
How blank!--but whence this rustling sound Which, all too long, the pair hath chased!
--A dancing leaf is close behind, 1819.
But whence that faintly-rustling sound 1820.
But whence this faintly rustling sound By which the pair have long been chased? c.]
[Variant 78:
1836.
When Peter spies the withered leaf, It yields no cure to his distress--1819.]
[Variant 79:
1836.
Ha! why this comfortless despair? 1819.]
[Variant 80:
1819.
... the Creature"s head; 1827.
The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]
[Variant 81:
1836.
... those darting pains, As meteors shoot through heaven"s wide plains, Pa.s.s through his bosom--and repa.s.s! 1819.]
[Variant 82:
1827.
Reading, as you or I might read At night in any pious book, 1819.]
[Variant 83:
1836.
... the good man"s taper, 1819.]
[Variant 84:
1836.
The ghostly word, which thus was fram"d, 1819.
... full plainly seen, 1827.]
[Variant 85:
1836.
... to torment the good 1819.]
[Variant 86:
1836.
I know you, potent Spirits! well, How with the feeling and the sense Playing, ye govern foes or friends.
Yok"d to your will, for fearful ends--1819.]
[Variant 87:
1836.
... I have often ... 1819.]
[Variant 88:
1836.