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[Variant 12:]

date
My course I stopped as soon as I espied
The Old Man in that naked wilderness:
Close by a Pond, upon the further side,[i]
He stood alone: a minute's space I guess
I watch'd him, he continuing motionless:
To the Pool's further margin then I drew;
He being all the while before me full in view.[ii]





1807

My course I stopped as soon as I espied
The Old Man in that naked wilderness:
Close by a Pond, upon the further side,[i]
He stood alone: a minute's space I guess
I watch'd him, he continuing motionless:
To the Pool's further margin then I drew;
He being all the while before me full in view.[ii]

This stanza, which appeared in the editions of 1807 and 1815, was, on Coleridge's advice, omitted from subsequent ones.

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[Variant 13:]

1807
... that ... MS. 1802.

... that ...

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