Have hardened me to this—but I can see
Things which I still can love—but none like thee.—[MS. erased.]
{Before I had to study far more useless books.—[MS. erased,]
Ere my young mind was fettered down to books.
[ag] Some living things——-.—[MS.]
[87] [Compare—
"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, when we are least alone."
Childe Harold, Canto III. stanza xc. lines 1, 2,
Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 272]
[88] {60}[For a description of the lake at Newstead, see Don Juan, Canto XIII. stanza lvii.]
[ah] And think of such things with a childish eye.—[MS.]
[89] {61}[Compare—