[Variant 4: 

1827.

  Which ... 1800.]

[Variant 5: 

1815.

  ... who ere his thirteenth year
  Had chang’d his calling, with the mariners 1800.]

[Variant 6: 

1840.

  ... green ... 1800.]

[Variant 7: 

1815.

  ... at length, ... 1800.]

[Variant 8: 

1827.

  ... traffic in ... 1800.]

[Variant 9: 

1827.

  ... which he liv’d there, ... 1800.]

[Variant 10: 

1836.

  ... of one whom he so dearly lov’d, 1800.]

[Variant 11: 

1836.

  Towards the church-yard he had turn’d aside, 1800.]

[Variant 12: 

1836.

  ... and he had hopes 1800.

  ... and hope was his 1832.]

[Variant 13: 

1815.

  As up the vale he came that afternoon, 1800.]

[Variant 14: 

1836.

  ... the ... 1800.]

[Variant 15: 

1815.

  ... he thought that he perceiv’d 1800.]

[Variant 16: 

1827.

  And the eternal hills, ... 1800.

  And the everlasting hills, ... 1820.]

[Variant 17: 

1815.

  He scann’d him ... 1800.]

[Variant 18: 

1800.

  ... cheeks, ... 1802.

The text of 1827 returns to that of 1800.]

[Variant 19: 

1815.

  Why, Sir, ... 1800.]

[Variant 20: 

1827.

  Companions for each other:  ten years back,
  Close to those brother fountains, the huge crag
  Was rent with lightning—­one is dead and gone, 1800.]

[Variant 21: 

1815.

  Why we have store of them! ... 1800.]

[Variant 22: 

1815.

  Cross-bones or skull, type of our earthly state
  Or emblem of our hopes:  ... 1800.]

[Variant 23: 

1827.

  ... winter’s evening, 1800.]

[Variant 24: 

1815.

  For five ... 1800.]

[Variant 25: 

1802.

  ... still preserv’d 1800.]

[Variant 26: 

1815.

  ... in ... 1800.]

[Variant 27: 

1815.

  ... these ... 1800.]

[Variant 28: 

1836.

...  For Though from their cradles they had liv’d with Walter, The only kinsman near them in the house, Yet he being old, they had much love to spare, 1800.

  The only Kinsman near them, and though he
  Inclined to them, by reason of his age,
  With a more fond, familiar tenderness,
  They, notwithstanding, had much love to spare, 1815.]