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: