1827.

We've ... 1807.]

[Variant 2:

1807.

How ... MS.]

[Variant 3:

1807.

Aye, willingly, and what is more One which you never heard before, True story this which I shall tell MS.]

[Variant 4:

1837.

In land where many a mountain towers, 1807.]

[Variant 5:

1807.

... could ... MS.]

[Variant 6:

1827.

... sweetly ... 1807.]

[Variant 7:

1815.

You ... 1807.]

[Variant 8:

1837.

He's in a vessel of his own, On the swift water hurrying down Towards the mighty Sea. 1807.

He in a vessel of his own, On the swift flood is hurrying down 1827.

Towards the great, great Sea. MS.]

[Variant 9:

1815.

... ne'er before Did human Creature ... 1807.]

[Variant 10: The following stanza was only in the edition of 1807:

Strong is the current; but be mild, Ye waves, and spare the helpless Child!

If ye in anger fret or chafe, A Bee-hive would be ship as safe As that in which he sails.]

[Variant 11:

1815.

But say, what was it? Thought of fear!

Well may ye tremble when ye hear!

--A Household Tub, like one of those, Which women use to wash their clothes, This carried the blind Boy. 1807.]

[Variant 12:

1820.

And one, the rarest, was a Sh.e.l.l Which he, poor Child, had studied well; The Sh.e.l.l of a green Turtle, thin And hollow;--you might sit therein.

It was so wide and deep. 1815.]

[Variant 13:

1820.

'Twas even the largest of its kind, Large, thin, and light as birch-tree rind; So light a Sh.e.l.l that it would swim, And gaily lift its fearless brim Above the tossing waves. 1815.]

[Variant 14:

1837.

... which ... 1815.]