First draft of Stanzas 1-3. MS. S. T. C.
[357:1] The second stanza of Mrs. Robinson's ('Perdita') 'Ode to the Snow-drop' runs thus:
All weak and wan, with head inclin'd,
Its parent-breast the drifted snow,
It trembles, while the ruthless wind
Bends its slim form; the tempest lowers,
Its em'rald eye drops crystal show'rs
On its cold bed below.
The Poetical Works of the late Mrs. Mary Robinson, 1806, i. 123.
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insuperable] unvoyageable MS. erased.
[[53-4]]
Along that marge does Laura lie
Full oft where Slumber heaves her breast
MS. erased.