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Variant 52:
 
1836
Whereat, in resolute mood, once more
He stoops the Ass's neck to seize—
Foul purpose, quickly put to flight!
For in the pool a startling sight
Meets him, beneath the shadowy trees.



1819
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Variant 53:
 
1819
... the gallows ...
 1832
The text of 1836 returns to that of 1819.

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Variant 54:
 
1836
Or a gay ring of shining fairies,
Such as pursue their brisk vagaries

1819
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Variant 55:
 
In the two editions of 1819 only.
Is it a party in a parlour?
Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd—
Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,
But, as you by their faces see,
All silent and all damn'd!a
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Variant 56:
 
1827
A throbbing pulse the Gazer hath—
Puzzled he was, and now is daunted;

1819
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Variant 57:
 
1836
Like one intent upon a book—
 1819
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Variant 58:
 
1836
And drops, a senseless weight,
 1819
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Variant 59:
 
1827
A happy respite!—but he wakes;—
And feels the glimmering of the moon—
And to stretch forth his hands is trying;—
Sure, when he knows where he is lying,
He'll sink into a second swoon.




1819
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Variant 60:
 
1827
... placid ...
1819
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Variant 61:
 
1827
So, faltering not in this intent,
He makes his staff an instrument
The river's depth to sound—

1819
So toward the stream his head he bent,
And downward thrust his staff, intent
To reach the Man who there lay drowned.—


1820
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Variant 62:
 
1836
The meagre Shadow all this while—
What aim is his? ...

1819
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Variant 63:
 
1836
That Peter on his back should mount
He shows a wish, well as he can,
"I'll go, I'll go, whate'er betide—
He to his home my way will guide,
The cottage of the drowned man."




1819
But no—his purpose and his wish
The Suppliant shews, well as he can;
Thought Peter whatsoe'er betide
I'll go, and he my way will guide
To the cottage of the drowned man.




1820
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Variant 64:
 
1836
This utter'd, Peter mounts forthwith
 1819
This hoping,
1820
Encouraged by this hope, he mounts
1827
This hoping, Peter boldly mounts
1832
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Variant 65:
 
1827
The
 1819
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Variant 66:
 
1836
And takes his way ...
1819
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Variant 67:
 
1840
Holding ...
1819
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Variant 68:
 
1840 and C.
What seeks the boy?—the silent dead!
 1819
Seeking for whom?— ...
 1836
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Variant 69:
 
1836
Whom he hath sought ...
 1819
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Variant 70:
 
1820
... doth rightly spell;
1819
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Variant 71:
 
1836
... noise ...
1819
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Variant 72:
 
1820
... to gain his end
 1819
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Variant 73:
 
1845
... footstep ...
 1819
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Variant 74:
 
1836
... along a ...
1819
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Variant 75:
 
In the editions of 1819 and 1820 the following stanza occurs:
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.
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Variant 76:
 
1827
The ...
1819
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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?
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Variant 78:
 
1836
When Peter spies the withered leaf,
It yields no cure to his distress—
1819
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Variant 79:
 
1836
Ha! why this comfortless despair?
 1819
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Variant 80:
 
1819
... the Creature's head;
 1827
The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.

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Variant 81:
 
1836
... those darting pains,
As meteors shoot through heaven's wide plains,
Pass through his bosom—and repass!

1819
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Variant 82:
 
1827
Reading, as you or I might read
At night in any pious book,
1819
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Variant 83:
 
1826
... the good man's taper,
 1819
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Variant 84:
 
1836
The ghostly word, which thus was fram'd,
 1819
... full plainly seen,
 1827
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Variant 85:
 
1836
... to torment the good
 1819
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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
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Variant 87:
 
1836
... I have often ...
 1819
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Variant 88:
 
1836
And well I know ...
 1819
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Variant 89:
 
1836
... and danc'd ...
 1819
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Variant 90:
 
1836
... clearly ...
 1819
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Variant 91:
 
1836
... hath ...
1819
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Variant 92:
 
1836
... to confound ...
1819
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Variant 93:
 
1836
But now the pair have reach'd a spot
Where, shelter'd by a rocky cove,

1819
Meanwhile the pair
1820
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Variant 94:
 
1836
The building seems, wall, roof, and tower,
 1819
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Variant 95:
 
1836
Deep sighing as he pass'd along,
Quoth Peter, "In the shire of Fife,
'Mid such a ruin, following still
From land to land a lawless will,



1819
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Variant 96:
 
1827
Making, ...
1819
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Variant 97:
 
1836
As if confusing darkness came
1819
And a confusing
 1832
While clouds of swimming darkness came
Over his eyesight with the sound.
C.
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Variant 98:
 
Italics were first used in the edition of 1820.
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Variant 99:
 
1836
A lonely house her dwelling was,
1819
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Variant 100:
 
1819
... her name ...
1820
The edition of 1827 returns to the text of 1819.

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