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" Heard indistinct , the far-off Thunder peals , From suffering Earth , com mission'd o ' er the Main , Where the black Tempest , pressing on the Pool , Heaves the dead Billows to the bursting Clouds .
Dire is the Fate of Those , who , reeling high , From Ware to Wave , even at the very Source Of Lightning , feel th' undissipated Flame ; Or , should They in a wat ' ry Vale escape , If , on their Heads , the forceful Spout descends , And drives the dizzy Vessel down the Deep , Till in the oozy Bottom stuck , profound .
" As from the Face of Heaven , each shatter ed Cloud , Tumultuous , roves , th * unfathomable blue , That constant Joy to every finer Eye , That Rapture ! swells into the general Arch , Which copes the Nations . —On the lilly'd Bank , Where a Brook quivers , often , careless , thrown , Up the wide Scene I've gaz'd whole Hours
away , With growing Wonder , while the Sun declin ed , As now , forth-breaking from the blotting Storm . " The lines 1238—1242 , appear now much improved , from the following in 1727 and 1730 :
" Shall He , so soon , forgetful of the past , After the Tempest , puff his trausient Vows , And a new Dance of Vanity begin , Scarce ere the Pant forsakes his feeble Heart \
The lines 1268—1437 are not in the edition 1727 , nor except the episode of Damon and M&sidora , ( afterwards much enlarged , ) in the edition 1730 . The paragraph , lines 1619—1628 , was in both the early editions thus :
" Low walks the Sun , and broadens by degrees , Just o ^ er the Verge of Day . The rising Clouds , That shift , perpetual , in his vivifl Train , Fheir dewy Mirrors , nrtmtoerleds , oppWd , Unfold the hidden Kiches of his Ray ,
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And chase a Change of Colours round the Sky . 'Tis all one Blush from Eajst to West And now , Behind the dusky Earth , He dips his Orb , Now half immersed , and now a golden Curve Gives one faint Glimmer , and then disappears . " The lines 1635—1642 were orig i , nally thus :
" A sight of Horror t to th' ungodly Wretch , J The Hard , the Lewd , the Cruel , and the False , Who , all Day long , have made the Widow weep , And snafch'd the Morsel from her
Orphan ' s Mouth , To give their Dogs : but to th * harmonious Mind , Who makes the hopeless Heart to sing for Joy , Diffusing , " &c .
Instead of the lines 1657—1662 the following * paragraph appears only in the edition 1727 : < c Wild-wafting o ' er the Lawn , the thistly Down Plays in the fickle Air , now seems to
fall , And now , high-soaring over Head , an Arch , Ainusive , forms , then slanting down eludes
The Grasp of idle Swain . But should the IVest A little swell the Breeze , the woolly Shower , Blown , in a white Confusion , thro' the Dusk , Falls o ' er the Face unfelt , and , settling
slow , Mantles the Twilight Plain . And yet even here , As thro' all Nature , in her lowest Forms , A fine Contrivance lies , to wing the Seed , By this light Plumage , into distant Vales . "
In 1 / 27 , and with a alight variation , in 1730 , instead of the lines 167 ^—1680 , were the following : " But far about They wander from the Grave
Of Him , xrhoui hte ungentle Fortune fore'd , Against Himself , to lift th © hated Hand Of Violence ; by Man cast out from Life , And , after Death , to which They drove his Hope
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4 S 4 B < toft-Wbrnt . No . XXVHI .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/28/
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