whose vales and
mountains
round 1820.
William Wordsworth
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. ]
[Variant 107:
1836.
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:
1836.
. . .
whose vales and mountains round 1820. ]
[Variant 109:
1836.
(Compressing eight lines into six. )
. . . to awful silence bound.
A gulf of gloomy blue, that opens wide
And bottomless, divides the midway tide.
Like leaning masts of stranded ships appear
The pines that near the coast their summits rear;
Of cabins, woods, and lawns a pleasant shore
Bounds calm and clear the chaps still and hoar;
Loud thro' that midway gulf ascending, sound
Unnumber'd streams with hollow roar profound: 1820. ]
[Variant 110:
1836.
Mount thro' the nearer mist the chaunt of birds,
And talking voices, and the low of herds,
The bark of dogs, the drowsy tinkling bell,
And wild-wood mountain lutes of saddest swell. 1820. ]
[Variant 111:
1836.
Think not, suspended from the cliff on high,
He looks below with undelighted eye. 1820. ]
[Variant 112: This couplet was added in the edition of 1836.
[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. ]
[Variant 107:
1836.
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:
1836.
. . .
whose vales and mountains round 1820. ]
[Variant 109:
1836.
(Compressing eight lines into six. )
. . . to awful silence bound.
A gulf of gloomy blue, that opens wide
And bottomless, divides the midway tide.
Like leaning masts of stranded ships appear
The pines that near the coast their summits rear;
Of cabins, woods, and lawns a pleasant shore
Bounds calm and clear the chaps still and hoar;
Loud thro' that midway gulf ascending, sound
Unnumber'd streams with hollow roar profound: 1820. ]
[Variant 110:
1836.
Mount thro' the nearer mist the chaunt of birds,
And talking voices, and the low of herds,
The bark of dogs, the drowsy tinkling bell,
And wild-wood mountain lutes of saddest swell. 1820. ]
[Variant 111:
1836.
Think not, suspended from the cliff on high,
He looks below with undelighted eye. 1820. ]
[Variant 112: This couplet was added in the edition of 1836.
