No More Learning

Fair scenes! with other eyes, than once, I gaze,
The ever-varying charm your round displays,
Than when, ere-while, I taught, "a happy child,"
The echoes of your rocks my carols wild:
Then did no ebb of chearfulness demand
Sad tides of joy from Melancholy's hand; 1793.

Upon the varying charm your round displays, 1820. ]


[Variant 4:

1820.

. . . wild . . . 1793. ]


[Variant 5:

1836.

. . .
stars of night,
Alike, when first the vales the bittern fills,
Or the first woodcocks roam'd the moonlight hills. 1793.

Alike, when heard the bittern's hollow bill,
Or the first woodcocks roam'd the moonlight hill. 1820. ]


[Variant 6:

1820.

Return Delights! with whom my road begun,
When Life rear'd laughing up her morning sun;
When Transport kiss'd away my april tear,
"Rocking as in a dream the tedious year";
When link'd with thoughtless Mirth I cours'd the plain, 1793. ]


[Variant 7:

1836.

For then, ev'n then, the little heart would beat 1793. ]


[Variant 8:

1836.

And wild Impatience, panting upward, show'd
Where tipp'd with gold the mountain-summits glow'd. 1793. ]


[Variant 9:

1836.

With Hope Reflexion blends her social rays 1793. ]


[Variant 10:

1820.

While, Memory at my side, I wander here,
Starts at the simplest sight th' unbidden tear,
A form discover'd at the well-known seat,
A spot, that angles at the riv'let's feet,
The ray the cot of morning trav'ling nigh,
And sail that glides the well-known alders by.