The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume I Part 12
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Volume I Part 12

[Variant 40: This couplet was first printed in the edition of 1820.]

[Variant 41:

1836.

Bright'ning the cliffs between where sombrous pine, And yew-trees ... 1793.]

[Variant 42:

1836.

How busy the enormous hive within, 1793.]

[Variant 43:

1836.

... with the ... 1793.]

[Variant 44:

1836.

Some hardly heard their chissel's clinking sound, 1793.]

[Variant 45:

1836.

... th' aereal ... 1793.]

[Variant 46:

1815.

... viewless ... 1793.]

[Variant 47:

1836.

Glad from their airy baskets hang and sing. 1793.]

[Variant 48:

1836.

Hung o'er a cloud, above the steep that rears 1793.]

[Variant 49:

1820.

It's ... 1793.]

[Variant 50:

1845.

And now it touches on the purple steep That flings his shadow on the pictur'd deep. 1793.

That flings its image ... 1832.

And now the sun has touched the purple steep Whose softened image penetrates the deep. 1836.]

[Variant 51:

1836.

The coves ... 1793]

[Variant 52:

1836.

The gilded turn arrays in richer green Each speck of lawn the broken rocks between; 1793.

... invests with richer green 1820.]

[Variant 53:

1827.

... boles ... 1793.]