The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Volume I Part 26

[Variant 30:

1836.

Whose flaccid sails in forms fantastic droop, Bright'ning the gloom where thick the forests stoop;

Only in the editions 1815 to 1832.]

[Variant 31:

1827.

... like swallows' nests that cleave on high; 1815.]

[Variant 32:

1827.

While Evening's solemn bird melodious weeps, Heard, by star-spotted bays, beneath the steeps;

Only in the editions of 1815 and 1820.]

[Variant 33:

1836.

--Thy lake, mid smoking woods, that blue and grey Gleams, streaked or dappled, hid from morning's ray 1815.

As beautiful the flood where blue or grey Dappled, or streaked, as hid from morning's ray. C.]

[Variant 34:

1836.

... to fold 1815.]

[Variant 35:

1836.

From thickly-glittering spires the matin bell Calling the woodman from his desert cell, A summons to the sound of oars, that pa.s.s, Spotting the steaming deeps, to early ma.s.s; Slow swells the service o'er the water born, While fill each pause the ringing woods of morn. 1815.

Calls forth the woodman with its cheerful knell. C.]

[Variant 36: This couplet was first added in 1845.]

[Variant 37:

1845.

Farewell those forms that in thy noon-tide shade, Rest, near their little plots of wheaten glade; 1820.

Ye lovely forms that in the noontide shade Rest near their little plots of wheaten glade. C.]

[Variant 38:

1845.

Those charms that bind ... 1820.]

[Variant 39:

1836.

And winds, ... 1820.]

[Variant 40:

1836.

Yet arts are thine that soothe the unquiet heart, And smiles to Solitude and Want impart.

I lov'd, 'mid thy most desart woods astray, With pensive step to measure my slow way, By lonely, silent cottage-doors to roam, The far-off peasant's day-deserted home. 1820.

I loved by silent cottage-doors to roam, The far-off peasant's day-deserted home; 1827.

These two lines take the place of the second and third couplets of the 1820 text quoted above.]

[Variant 41:

1836.

Once did I pierce to where a cabin stood; The red-breast peace had buried it in wood, 1820.

And once I pierced the mazes of a wood, Where, far from public haunt, a cabin stood; 1827.]

[Variant 42: