1820
Return Delights! with whom my road begun,
When Life rear'd laughing up her morning sun;
When Transport kiss'd away my April tear,
"Rocking as in a dream the tedious year";
When link'd with thoughtless Mirth I cours'd the plain,



1793

Return Delights! with whom my road begun,
When Life rear'd laughing up her morning sun;
When Transport kiss'd away my April tear,
"Rocking as in a dream the tedious year";
When link'd with thoughtless Mirth I cours'd the plain,

[return]

[Variant 7:]

1836
For then, ev'n then, the little heart would beat 1793

For then, ev'n then, the little heart would beat

[return]

[Variant 8:]

1836
And wild Impatience, panting upward, show'd
Where tipp'd with gold the mountain-summits glow'd.
1793

And wild Impatience, panting upward, show'd
Where tipp'd with gold the mountain-summits glow'd.