No More Learning

Rush down the living rocks with whirlwind sound. 1815. ]


[Variant 129:

1820.

Content . . . 1815. ]


[Variant 130:

1836.

. . . consecrate . . . 1815.
]


[Variant 131: The following lines were erased in 1836, and in all
subsequent editions:

"Here," cried a swain, whose venerable head
Bloom'd with the snow-drops of Man's narrow bed,
Last night, while by his dying fire, as clos'd
The day, in luxury my limbs repos'd,
Here Penury oft from misery's mount will guide
Ev'n to the summer door his icy tide,
And here the avalanche of Death destroy
The little cottage of domestic Joy. 1793. ]

. . . a Swain, upon whose hoary head
The "blossoms of the grave" were thinly spread, 1820.

. . . a thoughtful Swain, upon whose head 1827. ]


[Variant 132:

1836.

But, ah! the unwilling mind . . . 1820.