1836.
Continual fountains ... 1815.]
[Variant 104:
1836.
Nor Hunger forced the herds from pastures bare For scanty food the treacherous cliffs to dare. 1815.]
[Variant 105:
1836.
Then the milk-thistle bade those herds demand Three times a day the pail and welcome hand. 1815.]
[Variant 106:
1836.
Thus does the father to his sons relate, On the lone mountain top, their changed estate. 1815.]
[Variant 107:
1836.
But human vices have provoked the rod 1815.
In the editions 1815-1832 this and the following line preceded lines 399-400. They took their final position in the edition of 1836.]
[Variant 108:
1836.
... whose vales and mountains round 1820.]
[Variant 109:
1836.
(Compressing eight lines into six.)
... to awful silence bound.
A gulf of gloomy blue, that opens wide And bottomless, divides the midway tide.
Like leaning masts of stranded ships appear The pines that near the coast their summits rear; Of cabins, woods, and lawns a pleasant sh.o.r.e Bounds calm and clear the chaps still and h.o.a.r; Loud thro" that midway gulf ascending, sound Unnumber"d streams with hollow roar profound: 1820.]
[Variant 110:
1836.
Mount thro" the nearer mist the chaunt of birds, And talking voices, and the low of herds, The bark of dogs, the drowsy tinkling bell, And wild-wood mountain lutes of saddest swell. 1820.]
[Variant 111:
1836.
Think not, suspended from the cliff on high, He looks below with undelighted eye. 1820.]
[Variant 112: This couplet was added in the edition of 1836.]
[Variant 113:
1836.
--No vulgar joy is his, at even tide Stretch"d on the scented mountain"s purple side. 1820.]
[Variant 114:
1836.
While Hope, that ceaseless leans on Pleasure"s urn, 1820.]
[Variant 115:
1836.
... by vestal ... 1820.]
[Variant 116:
1836.
... native ... 1820.]
[Variant 117: