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On the broad mountain-top The neighing wild-colt races with the wind O'er fern and heath-flowers.
First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 278.
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A long deep lane So overshadow'd, it might seem one bower-- The damp clay-banks were furr'd with mouldy moss.
First published in 1893.
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Broad-breasted Pollards, with broad-branching heads.
First published in 1893.
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'Twas sweet to know it only possible-- Some _wishes_ cross'd my mind and dimly cheer'd it-- And one or two poor melancholy Pleasures-- In these, the pale unwarming light of Hope Silv'ring their flimsy wing, flew silent by, Moths in the Moonlight.
First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 277, 278.
LINENOTES:
[4] In these] Each in L. R.
[5] their] its L. R.
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Behind the thin Grey cloud that cover'd but not hid the sky The round full moon look'd small.
First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 277. Compare _Christabel_, ll. 16, 17 (_ante_, p. 216).
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The subtle snow In every breeze rose curling from the Grove Like pillars of cottage smoke.
First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 278.
LINENOTES:
The Subtle snow in every pa.s.sing breeze Rose curling from the grove like shafts of smoke.
L. R.
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The suns.h.i.+ne lies on the cottage-wall, A-s.h.i.+ning thro' the snow.
First published in 1893.
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A MANIAC in the woods--She crosses heedlessly the woodman's path--scourg'd by rebounding boughs.
First published in 1893.
Compare this with discarded stanza in 'Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie' as printed in the _Morning Post_, Dec. 21, 1799 (vide _ante_, p. 333).
And how he cross'd the woodman's paths, Thro' briars and swampy mosses beat; How boughs rebounding scourg'd his limbs, And low stubs gor'd his feet.
Note by J. D. Campbell, _P. W._, 1893, p. 456.
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HYMNS--MOON
In a cave in the mountains of Cashmeer, an image of ice, which makes its appearance thus: Two days before the new moon there appears a bubble of ice, which increases in size every day till the fifteenth day, at which it is an ell or more in height;--then, as the moon decreases the Image does also till it vanishes. _Mem._ Read the whole 107th page of Maurice's _Indostan_.
First published in 1893. 'Hymns to the Sun, the Moon, and the Elements'
are included in a list of projected works enumerated in the Gutch Notebook. The 'caves of ice' in _Kubla Khan_ may have been a reminiscence of the 107th page of Maurice's _Hindostan_.
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The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth-- A little mould fills up most eloquent mouths, And a square stone with a few pious texts Cut neatly on it, keeps the mould down tight.
First published in 1893. Compare _Osorio_, Act III, lines 259-62 (_ante_, p. 560).
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And with my whole heart sing the stately song, Loving the G.o.d that made me.
First published in 1893. Compare _Fears in Solitude_, ll. 196-7 (_ante_, p. 263).
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