1845
Mid stormy vapours ever driving by,
Where ospreys, cormorants, and herons cry;

Where ospreys, cormorants, and herons cry,
'Mid stormy vapours ever driving by,
1815


1836

Mid stormy vapours ever driving by,
Where ospreys, cormorants, and herons cry;
Where ospreys, cormorants, and herons cry,
'Mid stormy vapours ever driving by,

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[Variant 70:]

1836
Where hardly given the hopeless waste to cheer,
Denied the bread of life the foodful ear,

Hovering o'er rugged wastes too bleak to rear
That common growth of earth, the foodful ear;
1815


1820

Where hardly given the hopeless waste to cheer,
Denied the bread of life the foodful ear,
Hovering o'er rugged wastes too bleak to rear
That common growth of earth, the foodful ear;

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[Variant 71:]

1820
Dwindles the pear on autumn's latest spray,
And apple sickens pale in summer's ray;
1815

Dwindles the pear on autumn's latest spray,
And apple sickens pale in summer's ray;