No More Learning

Those eight lines were withdrawn in 1845. ]


[Variant 80:

1836.

. . . painful . . . 1793. ]


[Variant 81:

1820.

The distant clock forgot, and chilling dew,
Pleas'd thro' the dusk their breaking smiles to view,

Only in the edition of 1793. ]


[Variant 82:

1836.

. . .
on her lap to play
Delighted, with the glow-worm's harmless ray
Toss'd light from hand to hand; while on the ground
Small circles of green radiance gleam around. 1793. ]


[Variant 83:

1836.

Oh! when the bitter showers her path assail,
And roars between the hills the torrent gale, 1793.

. . . sleety showers . . . 1827. ]


[Variant 84:

1827.

Scarce heard, their chattering lips her shoulder chill,
And her cold back their colder bosoms thrill;
All blind she wilders o'er the lightless heath,
Led by Fear's cold wet hand, and dogg'd by Death;
Death, as she turns her neck the kiss to seek,
Breaks off the dreadful kiss with angry shriek.
Snatch'd from her shoulder with despairing moan,
She clasps them at that dim-seen roofless stone. --
"Now ruthless Tempest launch thy deadliest dart!