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.