Variants On The Text

[Variant 1:

1820.

There's a Thrush ... 1800.]

[Variant 2:

1802.

The only one ... 1800.]

[Variant 3: The following stanza, in the edition of 1800, was omitted in subsequent ones:

Poor Outcast! return--to receive thee once more The house of thy Father will open its door, And thou once again, in thy plain russet gown, May'st hear the thrush sing from a tree of its own. [i]]

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