No More Learning

--Alas! all light . . . 1836.

Those eight lines were withdrawn in 1845. ]


[Variant 80:

1836.

. . . painful . . . 1793. ]


[Variant 81:

1820.
The distant clock forgot, and chilling dew,
Pleas'd thro' the dusk their breaking smiles to view,

Only in the edition of 1793. ]


[Variant 82:

1836.

. . . on her lap to play
Delighted, with the glow-worm's harmless ray
Toss'd light from hand to hand; while on the ground
Small circles of green radiance gleam around. 1793. ]


[Variant 83:

1836.

Oh! when the bitter showers her path assail,
And roars between the hills the torrent gale, 1793.

. . . sleety showers . . .