]
[Sub-Variant 5: This couplet was cancelled in the edition of 1827.
[Sub-Variant 5: This couplet was cancelled in the edition of 1827.
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With lighter heart our course we may renew,
The first whose footsteps print the mountain dew. 1827. ]
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SUB-VARIANTS
[Sub-Variant 1:
A single taper in the vale profound
Shifts, while the Alps dilated glimmer round; 1832. ]
[Sub-Variant 2:
And, . . . 1832. ]
[Sub-Variant 3:
. . . above yon . . . 1836. ]
[Sub-Variant 4:
By the deep gloom appalled, the Vagrant sighs, 1836.
]
[Sub-Variant 5: This couplet was cancelled in the edition of 1827. ]
[Sub-Variant 6:
Or on her fingers . . . 1836. ]
[Sub-Variant 7: This couplet was withdrawn in 1827. ]
[Sub-Variant 8:
Behind the hill . . . 1836. ]
[Sub-Variant 9:
Near and yet nearer, from the piny gulf
Howls, by the darkness vexed, the famished wolf, 1836. ]
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FOOTNOTES
[Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836
(p. 1). --Ed. ]
[Footnote B: There is something characteristic in Wordsworth's
addressing an intimate travelling companion in this way. S.
