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[Variant 101: 

1820.

  Distraction reigns in soul and sense,
  And reason drops in impotence
  From her deserted pinnacle! 1819.]

[Variant 102: 

1820.

  ... ears ... 1819.]

[Variant 103: 

1836.

  Though clamorous as a hunter’s horn
  Re-echoed from a naked rock,
  ’Tis from that tabernacle—­List! 1819.

  The voice, though clamorous as a horn
  Re-echoed by a naked rock,
  Is from .... 1832.]

[Variant 104: 

1819.

  ... pious ... c.]

[Variant 105: 

1836.

  ’Tis said, that through prevailing grace 1819.]

[Variant 106: 

1836.

  ... shoulders scored
  Meek beast! in memory of the Lord 1819.

  Faithful memorial of the Lord c.]

[Variant 107: 

1836.

  In memory of that solemn day 1819.]

[Variant 108: 

1836.

  Towards a gate in open view
  Turns up a narrow lane; ... 1819.]

[Variant 109: 

1836.

  Had gone two hundred yards, not more;
  When to a lonely house he came;
  He turn’d aside towards the same
  And stopp’d before the door. 1819.]

[Variant 110: 

1836.

  In hope ... 1819.]

[Variant 111: 

1827.

  Close at ... 1819.]

[Variant 112: 

1832.

  What could he do?—­The Woman lay 1819.]

[Variant 113: 

1836.

  ... the sufferer ... 1819.]

[Variant 114: 

1819.

  ... stair ... 1820.

The edition of 1827 returns to the text of 1819.]

[Variant 115: 

1836.

  And to the pillow gives ... 1819.]

[Variant 116: 

1827.

  And resting on ... 1819.]

[Variant 117: 

1827.

  He turns ... 1819.]

[Variant 118: 

1836.

  ... his inward grief and fear—­1819.

  ... his sorrow and his fear—­C.]

[Variant 119: 

1827.

  ... had ... 1819.]

[Variant 120: 

1836.

  Towards ... 1819.]

[Variant 121: 

1832.

  ... repressed ... 1819.]

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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A:  The title in the two editions of 1819 was ’Peter Bell:  A Tale in Verse.’—­Ed.]

[Footnote B:  In Dorothy Wordsworth’s Alfoxden Journal the following occurs, under date April 20, 1798:  “The moon crescent.  ‘Peter Bell’ begun.”—­Ed.]

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