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1827.
We've ... 1807.]
[Variant 2:
1807.
How ... MS.]
[Variant 3:
1807.
Aye, willingly, and what is more One which you never heard before, True story this which I shall tell MS.]
[Variant 4:
1837.
In land where many a mountain towers, 1807.]
[Variant 5:
1807.
... could ... MS.]
[Variant 6:
1827.
... sweetly ... 1807.]
[Variant 7:
1815.
You ... 1807.]
[Variant 8:
1837.
He's in a vessel of his own, On the swift water hurrying down Towards the mighty Sea. 1807.
He in a vessel of his own, On the swift flood is hurrying down 1827.
Towards the great, great Sea. MS.]
[Variant 9:
1815.
... ne'er before Did human Creature ... 1807.]
[Variant 10: The following stanza was only in the edition of 1807:
Strong is the current; but be mild, Ye waves, and spare the helpless Child!
If ye in anger fret or chafe, A Bee-hive would be s.h.i.+p as safe As that in which he sails.]
[Variant 11:
1815.
But say, what was it? Thought of fear!
Well may ye tremble when ye hear!
--A Household Tub, like one of those, Which women use to wash their clothes, This carried the blind Boy. 1807.]
[Variant 12:
1820.
And one, the rarest, was a Sh.e.l.l Which he, poor Child, had studied well; The Sh.e.l.l of a green Turtle, thin And hollow;--you might sit therein.
It was so wide and deep. 1815.]
[Variant 13:
1820.
'Twas even the largest of its kind, Large, thin, and light as birch-tree rind; So light a Sh.e.l.l that it would swim, And gaily lift its fearless brim Above the tossing waves. 1815.]
[Variant 14:
1837.
... which ... 1815.]
