From Burns's poem, The Vision, Duan Second.—Ed.
In the edition of 1807, the poem began with what is now the second stanza, and consisted of four stanzas only, viz. Nos. ii., iii., iv., and viii. Stanzas i., v., vi., and vii. were added in 1827. Stanza iii. was omitted in 1820, but restored in 1827.—Ed.
Note:
In Dorothy Wordsworth's Recollections of this Tour we find, under date August 18, 1803: