[Variant 78: 

1836.

  When Peter spies the withered leaf,
  It yields no cure to his distress—­1819.]

[Variant 79: 

1836.

  Ha! why this comfortless despair? 1819.]

[Variant 80: 

1819.

  ... the Creature’s head; 1827.

The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]

[Variant 81: 

1836.

  ... those darting pains,
  As meteors shoot through heaven’s wide plains,
  Pass through his bosom—­and repass! 1819.]

[Variant 82: 

1827.

  Reading, as you or I might read
  At night in any pious book, 1819.]

[Variant 83: 

1836.

  ... the good man’s taper, 1819.]

[Variant 84: 

1836.

  The ghostly word, which thus was fram’d, 1819.

  ... full plainly seen, 1827.]

[Variant 85: 

1836.

  ... to torment the good 1819.]

[Variant 86: 

1836.

  I know you, potent Spirits! well,
  How with the feeling and the sense
  Playing, ye govern foes or friends. 
  Yok’d to your will, for fearful ends—­1819.]

[Variant 87: 

1836.

  ...  I have often ... 1819.]

[Variant 88: 

1836.

  And well I know ... 1819.]

[Variant 89: 

1836.

  ... and danc’d ... 1819.]

[Variant 90: 

1836.

  ... clearly ... 1819.]

[Variant 91: 

1836.

  ... hath ... 1819.]

[Variant 92: 

1836.

  ... to confound ... 1819.]

[Variant 93: 

1836.

  But now the pair have reach’d a spot
  Where, shelter’d by a rocky cove, 1819.

  Meanwhile the pair 1820.]

[Variant 94: 

1836.

  The building seems, wall, roof, and tower, 1819.]

[Variant 95: 

1836.

  Deep sighing as he pass’d along,
  Quoth Peter, “In the shire of Fife,
  ’Mid such a ruin, following still
  From land to land a lawless will, 1819.]

[Variant 96: 

1827.

  Making, ... 1819.]

[Variant 97: 

1836.

  As if confusing darkness came 1819.

  And a confusing 1832.

  While clouds of swimming darkness came
  Over his eyesight with the sound.  C.]

[Variant 98:  Italics were first used in the edition of 1820.]

[Variant 99: 

1836.

  A lonely house her dwelling was, 1819.]

[Variant 100: 

1819.

  ... her name ... 1820.

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