[Variant 60: 

1827.

  ... placid ... 1819.]

[Variant 61: 

1827.

  So, faltering not in this intent,
  He makes his staff an instrument
  The river’s depth to sound—­1819.

  So toward the stream his head he bent,
  And downward thrust his staff, intent
  To reach the Man who there lay drowned.—­1820.]

[Variant 62: 

1836.

  The meagre Shadow all this while—­
  What aim is his? ... 1819.]

[Variant 63: 

1836.

  That Peter on his back should mount
  He shows a wish, well as he can,
  “I’ll go, I’ll go, whate’er betide—­
  He to his home my way will guide,
  The cottage of the drowned man.” 1819.]

  But no—­his purpose and his wish
  The Suppliant shews, well as he can;
  Thought Peter whatsoe’er betide
  I’ll go, and he my way will guide
  To the cottage of the drowned man. 1820.]

[Variant 64: 

1836.

  This utter’d, Peter mounts forthwith 1819.

  This hoping, 1820.

  Encouraged by this hope, he mounts 1827.

  This hoping, Peter boldly mounts 1832.]

[Variant 65: 

1827.

  The 1819.]

[Variant 66: 

1836.

  And takes his way ... 1819.]

[Variant 67: 

1840.

  Holding ... 1819.]

[Variant 68: 

1840 and c.

  What seeks the boy?—­the silent dead! 1819.

  Seeking for whom?—... 1836.]

[Variant 69: 

1836.

  Whom he hath sought ... 1819.]

[Variant 70: 

1820.

  ... doth rightly spell; 1819.]

[Variant 71: 

1836.

  ... noise ... 1819.]

[Variant 72: 

1820.

  ... to gain his end 1819.]

[Variant 73: 

1845.

  ... footstep ... 1819.]

[Variant 74: 

1836.

  ... along a ... 1819.]

[Variant 75:  In the editions of 1819 and 1820 the following stanza occurs: 

  The verdant pathway, in and out,
  Winds upwards like a straggling chain;
  And, when two toilsome miles are past,
  Up through the rocks it leads at last
  Into a high and open plain.]

[Variant 76: 

1827.

  The ... 1819.]

[Variant 77: 

1836.

  How blank!—­but whence this rustling sound
  Which, all too long, the pair hath chased! 
—­A dancing leaf is close behind, 1819.

  But whence that faintly-rustling sound 1820.

  But whence this faintly rustling sound
  By which the pair have long been chased? c.]