r sloping pasture creep. C.]

[Variant 58:

1845.

Winding its dark-green wood and emerald glade,
The still vale lengthens underneath the shade;
While in soft gloom the scattering bowers recede,
Green dewy lights adorn the freshened mead, 1815.

Winding its darksome wood and emerald glade,
The still vale lengthens underneath the shade
Of low-hung vapour: on the freshened mead
The green light sparkles;--the dim bowers recede. 1836.]

[Variant 59:

1836.

... drizzling ... 1815.]

[Variant 60:

1845.

... my soul awake,
Lo! Fear looks silent down on Uri's lake;
Where by the unpathwayed margin still and dread
Was never heard the plodding peasant's tread: 1815.]

[Variant 61:

1845.

Tower like a wall the naked rocks, or reach
Far o'er the secret water dark with beech; 1815.

Tower-like rise up the naked rocks, or stretch 1836.]

[Variant 62:

1845.

More high, to where creation seems to end,
Shade above shade the desert pines ascend. 1815.

... the aerial pines ... 1820.

Shade above shade, the aerial pines ascend,
Nor stop but where creation seems to end. 1836.]

[Variant 63:

1845.

(Compressing eight lines into four.)

Yet, with his infants, man undaunted creeps
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps,
Where'er, below, amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little speck of smiling green.
A garden-plot the mountain air perfumes,
Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms;
A zig-zag path from the domestic skiff,
Threading the painful crag, surmounts the cliff. 1815.

... wood-cabin on the steeps. 1820.

... the desert air perfumes, 1820.

Thridding the painful crag, ... 1832.

Yet, wheresoe'er amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little spot of smiling green,
Man with his babes undaunted thither creeps,
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps.
A garden-plot ... 1836.]

[Variant 64:

1845.

--Before those hermit doors, that never know 1815.

--Before those lonesome doors, ... 1836.]

[Variant 65:

1845.

The grassy seat beneath their casement shade
The pilgrim's wistful eye hath never stayed. 1815.