1845
Tower like a wall the naked rocks, or reach
Far o'er the secret water dark with beech;

Tower-like rise up the naked rocks, or stretch
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Tower like a wall the naked rocks, or reach
Far o'er the secret water dark with beech;
Tower-like rise up the naked rocks, or stretch

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[Variant 62:]

1845
More high, to where creation seems to end,
Shade above shade the desert pines ascend.

... the aërial pines ...

Shade above shade, the aërial pines ascend,
Nor stop but where creation seems to end.
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More high, to where creation seems to end,
Shade above shade the desert pines ascend.
... the aërial pines ...
Shade above shade, the aërial pines ascend,
Nor stop but where creation seems to end.

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[Variant 63:]

1845 (Compressing eight lines into four:)
Yet, with his infants, man undaunted creeps
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps,
Where'er, below, amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little speck of smiling green.
A garden-plot the mountain air perfumes,
Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms;
A zig-zag path from the domestic skiff,
Threading the painful crag, surmounts the cliff.

... wood-cabin on the steeps.

... the desert air perfumes,

Thridding the painful crag, ...

Yet, wheresoe'er amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little spot of smiling green,
Man with his babes undaunted thither creeps,
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps.
A garden-plot ...






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Yet, with his infants, man undaunted creeps
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps,
Where'er, below, amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little speck of smiling green.
A garden-plot the mountain air perfumes,
Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms;
A zig-zag path from the domestic skiff,
Threading the painful crag, surmounts the cliff.
... wood-cabin on the steeps.
... the desert air perfumes,
Thridding the painful crag, ...
Yet, wheresoe'er amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little spot of smiling green,
Man with his babes undaunted thither creeps,
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps.
A garden-plot ...