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PDF[Variant 11:
1836.
What comfort Johnny soon will bring, 1798.
What comfort soon her Boy will bring, 1827.]
[Variant 12:
1827.
And Betty’s still at
Susan’s side:
By this time she’s not
quite so flurried; 1798.]
[Variant 13:
1827.
They’ll both be ... 1798.]
[Variant 14:
1827.
’Tis on the stroke—“If
Johnny’s near,”
Quoth Betty, “he will
soon be here,” 1798.]
[Variant 15:
1836.
Appear ... 1798.]
[Variant 16:
1827.
... she begins to fear 1798.]
[Variant 17:
1800.
Good Betty [i] ... 1798.]
[Variant 18:
1836.
She’s past the bridge
that’s in the dale,
And now the thought torments
her sore, 1798.
She’s past the bridge far in the dale; 1820.
The bridge is past—far in the dale; 1827.]
[Variant 19:
1827.
... that’s in the brook, 1798.]
[Variant 20:
1827.
And now she’s high ... 1798.]
[Variant 21.
1827.
...would ... 1798.]
[Variant 22.
1836.
And now she’s got into the town, 1798.]
[Variant 23:
1827.
... my Johnny here, 1798.]
[Variant 24.
1836.
All like a silent horseman-ghost,
He travels on along the vale.
1798.]
[Variant 25.
1820.
... he’s hunting . . 1798.]
[Variant 26.
1820.
...that’s so trim .... 1798.]
[Variant 27.
1827.
...he’ll gallop .... 1798.]
[Variant 28.
1802.
For sure he met ..... 1798.]
[Variant 29.
1798.
...unfriendly....
Only in MS. and in the edition of 1805.]
[Variant 30:
1827.
...that’s feeding ... 1798.]
[Variant 31:
1827.
And now she’s ... 1798.]
[Variant 32:
1827.
... she’s happy there, 1798.]
[Variant 33:
1827
Long Susan lay deep lost in thought, 1798.]
[Variant 34: 1836.
... she posts ... 1798.]
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FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: As Wordsworth gives the date of this poem as 1798, the above line implies that his poetical work began at least in 1784, when he was fourteen years of age. The note to ‘An Evening Walk’ dictated to Miss Fenwick (see p. 5) implies the same.—Ed.]
