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Tower-like rise up the naked rocks, or stretch 1836. ]


[Variant 62:

1845.

More high, to where creation seems to end,
Shade above shade the desert pines ascend. 1815.

. . . the aerial pines . . . 1820.

Shade above shade, the aerial pines ascend,
Nor stop but where creation seems to end. 1836. ]


[Variant 63:

1845.

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Yet, with his infants, man undaunted creeps
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps,
Where'er, below, amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little speck of smiling green.
A garden-plot the mountain air perfumes,
Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms;
A zig-zag path from the domestic skiff,
Threading the painful crag, surmounts the cliff. 1815.

. . . wood-cabin on the steeps. 1820.

. . . the desert air perfumes, 1820.

Thridding the painful crag, . . . 1832.