No More Learning

Beloved Freedom! were it mine to stray,
With shrill winds roaring . . . 1820. ]


[Variant 169:

1836.

O'er . . . 1820. ]


[Variant 170:

1836.

(Compressing four lines into two. )

. . .
o'er Lugano blows;
In the wide ranges of many a varied round,
Fleet as my passage was, I still have found
That where proud courts their blaze of gems display,
The lilies of domestic joy decay, 1820.

That where despotic courts their gems display, 1827. ]


[Variant 171:

1836.

In thy dear . . . 1820. ]


[Variant 172: The previous three lines were added in the edition of 1836. ]


[Variant 173:

1836.

The casement's shed more luscious woodbine binds,
And to the door a neater pathway winds; 1820. ]


[Variant 174:

1836.

(Compressing six lines into two. )

At early morn, the careful housewife, led
To cull her dinner from its garden bed,
Of weedless herbs a healthier prospect sees,
While hum with busier joy her happy bees;
In brighter rows her table wealth aspires,
And laugh with merrier blaze her evening fires; 1820. ]


[Variant 175:

1836.

Her infants' cheeks with fresher roses glow,
And wilder graces sport around their brow; 1820. ]


[Variant 176:

1836.