And MS. 1802.]
[Variant 7:
1836.
... comes ... 1807.
And MS. 1802.]
[Variant 8:
1807.
... was ... MS. 1802.]
[Variant 9:
1807.
... that ... MS. 1802.]
[Variant 10:
1820.
When up and down my fancy thus was driven, And I with these untoward thoughts had striven, 1807.
And MS. 1802.]
[Variant 11:
1807.
I spied ... MS. 1802.]
[Variant 12:
My course I stopped as soon as I espied The Old Man in that naked wilderness: Close by a Pond, upon the further side, [i]
He stood alone: a minute"s s.p.a.ce I guess I watch"d him, he continuing motionless: To the Pool"s further margin then I drew; He being all the while before me full in view. [ii] 1807.
This stanza, which appeared in the editions of 1807 and 1815, was, on Coleridge"s advice, omitted from subsequent ones.]
[Variant 13:
1807.
... that ... MS. 1802.]
[Variant 14:
1820.
... which ... 1807.
And MS. 1802.]
[Variant 15:
1820.
... in their pilgrimage 1807.
And MS. 1802.]
[Variant 16:
1807.
... his age ... MS. 1802.]
[Variant 17:
1836.
Himself he propp"d, both body, limbs, and face, MS. 1802.
... his body, ... 1807.]
[Variant 18:
1820.
Beside the little pond or moorish flood 1807.
And MS. 1802.]