(a)Any thing but this crash of water drops!
These dull abortive sounds that fret the silence
With puny thwartings and mock opposition!
So beats the death-watch to a sick man's ear

Remorse.

(b)Anything but this

crash of water-drops
noise
At broken measure

scoffing
mocking intervals—
Their discontinuous, interruptive sound

These
With dull abortive &c.

MS. III erased.

Affixed to variant (a) of l. 12 '—this at all events is the final result of this correction.' S. T. C.

[[13]]

A hellish pit! O God—'tis that I dreamt of! Corr. in MS. III: A hellish pit! The very same I dreamt of! Remorse.

Affixed to [13] 'You mean like the dream presented to my mind when under the influence of the night-mare. This is most ludicrously expressed.' C. Ll[oyd]

[[16]]

I swear that I saw something Remorse.