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    The paragraph , lines 1092—1102 , was improved from the following , in 1727 and 1730 ; ( l Much of the Force of foreign Summers still , Of growling Hills , that shoot the pillar'd Flame , Of Earthquake , and pale Famine , could I

    sing ; But equal Scenes of Horror call Me Home . " In 1727 and 1730 , the lines 1108—1116 , were in the following * form : " Thence Nitre , Sulphur , Vitriol , on the Day Stream , and fermenting in yon baleful Cloud ,

    Extensive o ' er the World , a reddening Gloom ! In dreadful Promptitude to spring , await The high Command . " The description of the thunderstorm , lines 1144—1168 , was originally in the following form , the last paragraph being omitted in 1730 :

    " Down comes a Deluge of sonorous Hail , In the white , heavenly Magazines congeal'd ; And often fatal to th' unsheltered Head Of man , or rougher Beast . The sluicy Rain , In one unbroken Flood , descends ; and

    yet Th * unconquerable Lightning struggles thro ' , Ragged and fierce , or in red whirling Balls , And strikes the Shepherd , as He , shuddering , sits , Presaging Ruin , in the rocky Clift . His inmost Marrow feels the gliding

    Flame ; He dies—and , like a Statue grim'd with Age , His live , dejected Posture still remains ; His Russet sing'd , and rent his hanging Hat :

    Against his Crook his sooty Cheek re clin'd ; While , whining at his Feet , his half stun'd Dog , Importunately kind , and fearful , pats On his insensate Master , for Relief .

    Black , from the Stroak , above , the Mountain-Pine , A leaning , shatter ed Trunk , stands scath'd to Heaven , The Talk of future Ages ! and , below , A lifeless Groupe the blasted Cattle lie . Here , the soft Flocks , with that same harmless Look ,

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    They wore alive , and ruminating still , In Fancy 9 Eye ; aud there , the frowning Bull , And Ox half-rais'd . A little farther , burns

    The guiltless Cottage ; and the haughty Dome Stoops to the Base . TV uprooted Forrest flies Aloft in Air , or , flaming out , displays The savage Haunts by Day unpiere'd before .

    Scar'd is the Mountain ' s Brow ; and , from the Cliff , Tumbles the smitten Rock . The Desart shakes , And gleams , and grumbles , through his deepest Dens . " Now swells the Triumph of the Virtuous Man : lt 4 % II

    T A . M 1 * > V L > J A » A ^ m y And this outrageous , elemental Fray , To Him , a dread Magnificence appears , The Glory of that Power He calls his Friend , Sole honourable Name !¦—But woe to Him , Who . of infuriate Malice , and' confirm ed V V H \^ V ^ M . XI * % , V % A . M . V * % . * - * A . * JL V * . * . J-V > % _^ % V * »* V * ^ x ^ *_* a . » m . » .- * » -v ^ .

    y In Vice longr-practis'd , is a Foe to man His Brother , and at Variance with his God . He thinks the Tempest weaves around his Head ; Loudens the Roar to Him , and in his Eye

    The bluest Vengeance glares . Th' Oppressor , who , Unpitying , heard the Waitings of Distress , Gall'd by his Scourge , now shrinks at other Sounds . Hid are the Neroes of the Earth—in vain , ' Like Children hid in Sport . Chief , in the Breast

    Of solitary Atheist , Wildness reigns , Licentious ; vanish'd every quaiut Couceit , And impious Jest , with which he used to pelt Superiour Reason ; Anguish in his Look , And Supplication lifts his Hand . He'd

    pray , If his hard Heart would flow . At last He runs , Precipitant , and entering just the Cave , The Messenger of Justice , glancing , comes , With swifter Sweep behind , and trips his Heel .

    The beautiful epiaode of Celadon and Amelia was originally very nearly as at present . The few variations are evident improvements . la 1727 , immediately after the episode , were the following paragraphs , since omitted * except a very few words ;

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    BoofcfTdrm , No . XXVtIL 483

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/27/