In the editions 1820-1832 this couplet preceded the four lines above quoted:
| Fear in his breast with holy love unites, And the near heavens impart their own delights. | 1836 |
Fear in his breast with holy love unites,
And the near heavens impart their own delights.
| 1836 | |
| That hut which from the hills his eyes employs So oft, the central point of all his joys, ... his eye ... | 1815 1832 |
That hut which from the hills his eyes employs
So oft, the central point of all his joys,
... his eye ...
| 1836 | |
| And as a swift, by tender cares opprest, Peeps often ere she dart into her nest, So to the untrodden floor, where round him looks His father, helpless as the babe he rocks, Oft he descends to nurse the brother pair, | 1820 |