Lines 646-651 were previously
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and stedfast gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys.
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and stedfast gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys.
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fainter pang .
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.
1820.
]
[Variant 182:
1836.
A more majestic tide [vi] the water roll'd,
And glowed the sun-gilt groves in richer gold. 1820. ]
[Variant 183:
1836.
(Compressing six lines into four. )
--Though Liberty shall soon, indignant, raise
Red on the hills his beacon's comet blaze;
Bid from on high his lonely cannon sound,
And on ten thousand hearths his shout rebound;
His larum-bell from village-tower to tower
Swing on the astounded ear its dull undying roar; 1820. ]
[Variant 184:
1836.
Yet, yet rejoice, though Pride's perverted ire
Rouze Hell's own aid, and wrap thy hills on fire!
Lo! from the innocuous flames, a lovely birth,
With its own Virtues springs another earth: 1820. ]
[Variant 185:
1836.
Lines 646-651 were previously
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and stedfast gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys. 1820. ]
[Variant 186:
1836.
(Expanding eight lines into nine. )
Oh give, great God, to Freedom's waves to ride
Sublime o'er Conquest, Avarice, and Pride,
To sweep where Pleasure decks her guilty bowers
And dark Oppression builds her thick-ribbed towers!
--Give them, beneath their breast while gladness springs
To brood the nations o'er with Nile-like wings;
And grant that every sceptred Child of clay,
Who cries, presumptuous, "here their tides shall stay," 1820. ]
[Variant 187: This couplet was added in 1836. ]
[Variant 188:
1836.
Swept in their anger from the affrighted shore,
With all his creatures sink--to rise no more! 1820. ]
[Variant 189:
1845.
Be the dead load of mortal ills forgot! 1820
Be fear and joyful hope alike forgot 1836. ]
[Variant 190: This couplet was added in 1827. ]
[Variant 191:
1836.
Renewing, when the rosy summits glow
At morn, our various journey, sad and slow.
[Variant 182:
1836.
A more majestic tide [vi] the water roll'd,
And glowed the sun-gilt groves in richer gold. 1820. ]
[Variant 183:
1836.
(Compressing six lines into four. )
--Though Liberty shall soon, indignant, raise
Red on the hills his beacon's comet blaze;
Bid from on high his lonely cannon sound,
And on ten thousand hearths his shout rebound;
His larum-bell from village-tower to tower
Swing on the astounded ear its dull undying roar; 1820. ]
[Variant 184:
1836.
Yet, yet rejoice, though Pride's perverted ire
Rouze Hell's own aid, and wrap thy hills on fire!
Lo! from the innocuous flames, a lovely birth,
With its own Virtues springs another earth: 1820. ]
[Variant 185:
1836.
Lines 646-651 were previously
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and stedfast gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys. 1820. ]
[Variant 186:
1836.
(Expanding eight lines into nine. )
Oh give, great God, to Freedom's waves to ride
Sublime o'er Conquest, Avarice, and Pride,
To sweep where Pleasure decks her guilty bowers
And dark Oppression builds her thick-ribbed towers!
--Give them, beneath their breast while gladness springs
To brood the nations o'er with Nile-like wings;
And grant that every sceptred Child of clay,
Who cries, presumptuous, "here their tides shall stay," 1820. ]
[Variant 187: This couplet was added in 1836. ]
[Variant 188:
1836.
Swept in their anger from the affrighted shore,
With all his creatures sink--to rise no more! 1820. ]
[Variant 189:
1845.
Be the dead load of mortal ills forgot! 1820
Be fear and joyful hope alike forgot 1836. ]
[Variant 190: This couplet was added in 1827. ]
[Variant 191:
1836.
Renewing, when the rosy summits glow
At morn, our various journey, sad and slow.
