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1815.

Then Summer lingered long; and honey flowed
Out of the rocks, the wild bees' safe abode. 1836. ]


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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. ]


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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:

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. . . whose vales and mountains round 1820. ]


[Variant 109:

1836.

(Compressing eight lines into six. )

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