Variants On The Text

[Variant 1:

1837.

From her long course returns:--... 1815.]

[Variant 2:

1837.

Towards a safer shore--... 1815.]

[Variant 3:

1837

--A few appear by morning light, Preserved upon the tall mast's height: Oft in my Soul I see that sight; 1815.]

[Variant 4: In the edition of 1827 and subsequent ones, Wordsworth here inserted a footnote, asking the reader to refer to No. VI. of the "Poems on the Naming of Places," beginning "When, to the attractions of the busy world," p. 66. His note of 1837 refers also to the poem which there precedes the present one, viz. the 'Elegiac Stanzas.'--Ed.]

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