instead of ll. 260-7:
Ills that no medicines can heal, And griefs that no man can forget; Whatever cares the mind can fret, The spirits wear, the bosom gall— Pain, hunger, prison, duns, and debt Foul-fiends and fear,—I’ve felt ye all.
THE HALL OF JUSTICE. ‘Original MS.’ readings given as footnotes in Life and Poems (1834).
Part I.
Instead of ll. 9-12:
What is my crime? a deed of love; I fed my child with pilfer’d food: Your laws will not the act approve, The law of Nature deems it good.
instead of ll. 43-6:
My years, indeed, are sad and few, Though weak these limbs, and shrunk this frame: For Grief has done what Time should do; And I am old in care and shame.
Part II.
instead of ll. 29-34: