[This emendation is not given in the Murray copy.]
Lines 257, 258.
So
How well the subject suits his noble mind!
"A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind,"
He brays the Laureat of the long-eared kind!
[The Murray copy, which amends line 258 as above, leaves the "How" unerased, but the Fifth Edition prints "So.">[
Lines 323-328.
And shows, dissolved in thine own tears.
still whimpering through threescore years.
Whether in sighing-winds thou seek'st relief,
Or consolation in a yellow leaf.
Whether in equal strains thou vent'st thy grief
O'er falling Empires or a yellow leaf.
[The Murray copy gives no emendation. The Fifth Edition adopts the first correction, but, for the variant in lines 327, 328, reads—
Whether thou sing'st with equal ease and grief
The fall of Empires or a yellow leaf.]
Line 336. All love thy strain
rhyme
Line 385. Fresh fish from Helicon
Hippocrene
[The Murray copy adds a note: "The Fifth Edition reads Hippocrene.">[