The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Volume I Part 30

1845.

Glances the fire-clad eagle's wheeling form; 1815.

... glorious form; 1836.]

[Variant 76:

1845.

Wide o'er the Alps a hundred streams unfold, 1815.

Those eastern cliffs ... 1836.]

[Variant 77:

1845.

... strives to shun The west ... 1815.

... tries to shun The _west_, ... 1836.]

[Variant 78:

1845.

Where in a mighty crucible expire The mountains, glowing hot, like coals of fire. 1815.]

[Variant 79:

1836.

While burn in his full eyes the glorious tears. 1820.]

[Variant 80:

1836.

Exalt, and agitate ... 1820.]

[Variant 81:

1836.

On Zutphen's plain; or where, with soften'd gaze, The old grey stones the plaided chief surveys; Can guess the high resolve, the cherished pain Of him whom pa.s.sion rivets to the plain, 1820.]

[Variant 82:

1836.

And watch, from pike to pike, amid the sky Small as a bird the chamois-chaser fly, 1820.]

[Variant 83:

1836.

Thro' worlds where Life, and Sound, and Motion sleep; Where Silence still her death-like reign extends, Save when the startling cliff unfrequent rends: In the deep snow the mighty ruin drowned, Mocks the dull ear ... 1820.]

[Variant 84:

1836.

While the near moon, that coasts the vast profound, Wheels pale and silent her diminished round, 1820.]

[Variant 85:

1827.

Flying more fleet than vision can pursue! 1820.]

[Variant 86:

1836.

Then with Despair's whole weight his spirits sink, No bread to feed him, and the snow his drink, While, ere his eyes ... 1820.]

[Variant 87:

1836.

Hence shall we turn where, heard with fear afar, 1820.]

[Variant 88:

1836.

... from ... 1820.]