No More Learning

Fondly we wished, and wished away, nor knew,
'Mid that long sickness, and those hopes deferr'd, 1798. ]


[Variant 32:

1802.

But from delay the summer calms were past. 1798. ]


[Variant 33:

1802.

We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that perished in the whirlwind's sweep, 1798. ]


[Variant 34:

Oh! dreadful price of being to resign
All that is dear _in_ being! better far
In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,
Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star;
Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,
Better our dying bodies to obtrude,
Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,
Protract a curst existence, with the brood
That lap (their very nourishment! ) their brother's blood.

Only in the editions of 1798 and 1800. ]


[Variant 35:

1842.

It would thy brain unsettle even to hear. 1798. ]


[Variant 36:

1842.
Peaceful as some immeasurable plain
By the first beams of dawning light impress'd, 1798. ]


[Variant 37:

1827.

. . . has its hour of rest,
That comes not to the human mourner's breast. 1798.

I too was calm, though heavily distress'd! 1802. ]


[Variant 38:

1842.

Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A heavenly silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair. 1798.

Oh me, how quiet sky and ocean were!
My heart was healed within me, I was bless'd.
And looked, and looked . .