| 1815 | |
| Thence, from three paly loopholes mild and small, Slow lights upon the lake's still bosom fall, | 1793 |
Thence, from three paly loopholes mild and small,
Slow lights upon the lake's still bosom fall,
| 1827 | |
| Beyond the mountain's giant reach that hides In deep determin'd gloom his subject tides. —Mid the dark steeps repose the shadowy streams, As touch'd with dawning moonlight's hoary gleams, Long streaks of fairy light the wave illume With bordering lines of intervening gloom, | 1793 |
Beyond the mountain's giant reach that hides
In deep determin'd gloom his subject tides.
—Mid the dark steeps repose the shadowy streams,
As touch'd with dawning moonlight's hoary gleams,
Long streaks of fairy light the wave illume
With bordering lines of intervening gloom,
The second and third of these couplets were cancelled in the edition of 1815, and the whole passage was withdrawn in 1827.