No More Learning

yet more dear--
Effect which might perhaps have been produc'd
By that instinctive tenderness, . . . 1800. ]


[Variant 21:

1836.

Blind Spirit, which is in the blood of all, 1800. ]


[Variant 22:

1827.

Or . . . 1800. ]


[Variant 23: This line was first printed in the edition of 1836. ]


[Variant 24:

From such, and other causes, to the thoughts
Of the old Man his only Son was now
The dearest object that he knew on earth.

Only in the editions of 1800 to 1820. ]


[Variant 25:

1827.
For dalliance . . . 1800. ]


[Variant 26:

1836.

His cradle with a woman's gentle hand. 1800. ]


[Variant 27:

1836.

. . . when he
Had work by his own door, or when he sate
With sheep before him on his Shepherd's stool,
Beneath that large old Oak, which near their door
Stood, and from its enormous breadth of shade 1800. ]


[Variant 28:

1815.

While this good household thus were living on 1800.

While in the fashion which I have described
This simple Household thus were living on 1800 (2nd issue). ]


[Variant 29:

1836.