Variants On The Text

[Variant 1:

1802.

Auld 1798.]

[Variant 2:

1836

--This woman dwelt in Dorsetshire, Her hut was on a cold hill-side, And in that country coals are dear, For they come far by wind and tide. 1798.

Remote from sheltering village green, Upon a bleak hill-side, she dwelt, Where from sea-blasts the hawthorns lean, And hoary dews are slow to melt. 1820.

On a hill's northern side she dwelt. 1827.]

[Variant 3.

1820.

... dwelt ... 1798.]

[Variant 4.

1827.

... wood ... 1798]

[Variant 5.

1836.

And ... 1798.]

[Variant 6.

1827.

The bye-road ... 1798.]

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