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Into tfce broad Way side . The raioM Tower Is ^ Iso s&u&n'd , whose unblest Chambers hold , Nightly , sole Habitant , the yelling Ghost "
The following paragraph , after line 1680 , appears only in the Edition , \ m ~ Struck from the Roots of slimy Rushes , blue , The Wild-Fire scatters round , or , gather'd , trails
A Length of Flame , deceitful , o ' er the MOSSy Whither , entangled in the Maze of Night , While the damp Desart breathes his Fogs around , The Traveller , decoy'd , is quite absorpt , Rider and Horse , into the miry Gulph ,
Leaving his Wife , and Family involv In sorrowful Conjecture . Other Times , Sent by the quick-ey ' d Angel of the Night , Innoxious , on th' unstartling Horse's Mane ,
The Meteor sits , and shows the narrow path , That , winding , leads thro' Pits of Death , or else Directs Him how to take the dangerous Ford . "
Instead of lines 1698—1702 , were the following in 1727 and 1730 : " As thus , th % Effulgence tremulous , I drink , With fix'd Peruse , the lambent Lightnings shoot
A-eross the Sky , or , horizontal , dart Cer half the Nations , in a Minute ' s Space , Conglob'd , or long . Astonishment succeeds , And silence , ere the various Talk begins . "
Then follow , only in the first edition , these paragraphs : " That Instant , flashing , noiseless , from the North , A thousand Meteors stream , ensweeping first The lower Skies , then , all at once ,
converge High to the Crown of Heaven , and , all at once , Relapsing quick , as quickly reascend , And mix , and thwart , extinguish , and jenew , All iEtlier coursing in a Maze of Light . u tfrom Eye to Eye , contagious , tfiro * the Crowd .
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The Punic runs , and $ mto irconjder&u& Shapes , . Th' Appearance throws : Armies In meet Arr&y , Throng with aerial Spears , and Steeds of
Fire ; Till , the long Lines of full-extended War In bleeding Fight commixt , the sanguine Flood Rowls a broad Slaughter o ' er the Plains of Heaven .
" As the mad People scan the fancy'd Scene , On all Sides swells the superstitious Din , Incontinent , and busy Frenzy talks Of Blood and Battle ; Cities over-turn * d , And , late at Night , in swallowing Earthquake sunk ,
Or painted hideous with ascending Flame ; Of Blights , that blacken the white bosom'd Springy And Tempest , shaking j 4 itfumn into Chaff ,
Till Famine , empty-handed , starves the Year ; Of Pestilence , and every great Distress , Empires subvers'd , when ruling Fate has struck Th * unalterable hour : even Nature ' s Self Is deem'd to totter on the Brink of Time )
< c Not so the Man of Philosophic Eye , And Inspect sage , the waving Brightness , He , Curious surveys , inquisitive to know The Causes , and Materials , yet unfix'd , Of this Appearance beautiful , and new . ' * Instead of the last paragraph the following appeared in 1730 :
" vulgar stare ; amazement is their joy , And mystic faith , a fond sequaqious herd But scrutinous Philosoph y looks deep , With piercing eye , into the latent cause ; Nor can she swallow what she does not see . "
The concluding address to Philosophy , lines 1729 , &c , has been subjected to scarcely any alteration y and the praise of poetry , lines 1752—1756 , which is inscribed on Thomson ' s Monument in Poets * Corner , is now verbatim as in 1727 .
The only variation , not merel y verbal , which remains , is in lines 1 / 61 — 1769 , substituted for the following-, some of which are less worthy of the author of Liberty :
— ¦ ' ; - ¦ " Nor Home nor Joy Dome&tick , mixM of Tenderness and Care , N
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. Btob-ffvrm ' . No . XXVIII . 486
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 485, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/29/
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