Variants On The Text

[Variant 1:

1827.

For ... 1807.]

[Variant 2:

1837.

... under Jedborough Tower There liveth in the prime of glee, A Woman, whose years are seventy-three, And She ... 1807.

There lives a woman of seventy-three, And she will dance and sing with thee, MS.

A Matron dwells, who though she bears Our mortal complement of years, Lives in the light of youthful glee, 1827.]

[Variant 3:

1827.

... for mirth and cheer? 1807.]

[Variant 4:

1827.

I look'd, I scann'd her o'er and o'er; The more I look'd I wonder'd more: 1807.]

[Variant 5:

1837.

When suddenly I seem'd to espy A trouble in her strong black eye; 1807.

A moment gave me to espy A trouble . . . 1827.]

[Variant 6:

1827.

And soon she made this matter plain; And told me, in a thoughtful strain, 1807.]

[Variant 7:

As bad almost as Life can bring, Added in MS.]

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