should thankless pride repine? First edition, ‘’twere thankless to repine.’ Say, should the philosophic mind, etc. First edition:— ’Twere affectation all, and school-taught pride, To spurn the splendid things by heaven supply’d hoard. ‘Sum’ in the first edition. Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own. In the first version this was— Boldly asserts that country for his own. And yet, perhaps, etc. In the first edition, for this and the following five lines appeared these eight:— And yet, perhaps, if states with states we scan, Or estimate their bliss on Reason’s plan, Though patriots flatter, and though fools contend, We still shall find uncertainty suspend; Find that each good, by Art or Nature given, To these or those, but makes the balance even: Find that the bliss of all is much the same, And patriotic boasting reason’s shame! On Idra’s cliffs. Bolton Corney conjectures that Goldsmith meant ‘Idria, a town in Carniola, noted for its mines.’ ‘Goldsmith in his “History of Animated Nature” makes mention of the mines, and spells the name in the same way as here.’ (Mr. J. H. Lobban’s _Select Poems of Goldsmith_, 1900, p. 87). Lines 84–5, it may be added, are not in the first edition. And though the rocky-crested summits frown. In the first edition:— And though rough rocks or gloomy summits frown. lines 91–2. are not in the first editions. peculiar, i.e. ‘proper,’ ‘appropriate.’ winnow, i.e. ‘waft,’ ‘disperse.’ John Evelyn refers to these ‘sea-born gales’ in the ‘Dedication’ of his _Fumifugium_, 1661:— ‘Those who take notice of the scent of the orange-flowers from the rivage of Genoa, and St. Pietro dell’ Arena; the blossomes of the rosemary from the Coasts of Spain, many leagues off at sea; or the manifest, and odoriferous wafts which flow from Fontenay and Vaugirard, even to Paris in the season of roses, with the contrary effect of those less pleasing smells from other accidents, will easily consent to what I suggest [i.e. the planting of sweet-smelling trees].’ (_Miscellaneous Writings_, 1825, p. 208.) Till, more unsteady, etc. In the first edition:— But, more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn’d on other shores her sail.