The [32d and last stanza] is as follows:
| "No farther seek his merits to disclose, Nor seek to draw them from their dread abode— (His frailties there in trembling hope repose); The bosom of his Father and his God."9 |
9 The above are all the variations from the present text in the Wrightson MS. which are noted by the authorities on whom we have depended; but we suspect that the following readings, mentioned by Mitford as in the MS., belong to that MS., as they are not found in the other: in the [7th stanza], "sickles" for "sickle;" in [18th], "shrines" for "shrine." Two others (in stanzas 9th and 27th) are referred to in our account of the Pembroke MS. below.
The Pembroke MS. has the following variations from the present version:
In the [1st stanza], "wind" for "winds."
[2d stanza], "Or drowsy," etc.
[5th stanza], "and the ecchoing horn."
[6th stanza], "Nor climb his knees."
[9th stanza], "Awaits alike." Probably this is also the reading of the Wrightson MS. Mitford gives it as noted by Mason, and it is retained by Gray in the ed. of 1768.
The [10th stanza] begins,