398, "Is borne secure, and rides aloft in state"; 399, "No, the stars"; 410, "Burst from the skies the fury of a blast"; 411, "Round the four eaves"; 414, "Sport with the sands"; 417, "Lights through the air like blazing stars"; 420, "As if afraid the fearful"; 424, "its dreary song"; 441, "Now from within"; 451, "Roar'd like a devil; while the woods around"; 458-460, "Haste, seize the wretch who my request denies. Tophet receive him to thy lowest pit, Chain'd midst eternal oaths and blasphemies." 470, "And found the coemetery in the gloom"; 471, "a hell-red waving light"; 472, "horrid circles"; 497, 498, "to the grave"; 499, 500, "A sable chariot drove with wild career, And following close a gloomy cavalcade"; 501, "Whose spectre forms"; 502, "by Pluto's consort wove"; 507, "lanthorn's beam"; 517, "Now deep was plac'd"; 520, "The sable steeds went swifter than the wind"; 523, 524, "Blooming the morn arose, and in the east Stalk'd gallantly in her sun-beam parade." The poem closes in the 1779 version with the following stanzas: "Waking I found my weary night a dream; Dreams are perhaps forebodings of the soul; Learn'd sages tell why all these whims arose, And from what source such mystic visions roll. Do they portend approaching death, which tells I soon must hence my darksome journey go? Sweet Cherub Hope! Dispel the clouded dream Sweet Cherub Hope, man's guardian god below. Stranger, who'er thou art, who this shall read, Say does thy nightly fancy rove like mine; Transport thee o'er wide lands and wider seas Now underneath the pole and now the burning line? Poet, who thus dost rove, say, shall thou fear New Jordan's stream prefigured by the old? It will but waft thee where thy fathers are The bards with long eternity enroll'd. It will but waft thee where thy Homer shrouds His laurell'd head in some Elysian grove, And on whose skirts perhaps in future years, At awful distance you and I may rove. Enough--when God and nature give the word, I'll tempt the dusky shore and narrow sea: Content to die, just as it be decreed, At four score years, or now at twenty-three." In the edition of 1795, Freneau used only stanzas 3-17, 119-124 of the poem, giving it the title "The Vision of the Night. A Fragment." In this there are some sixteen variations from the earlier text, nearly all minor verbal changes not always for the better. Several, however, are significant, for instance, line 12 is made to read, "I sing the horrors and the shades of night"; line 32 is changed to "with her ebon spear"; line 478 to "raised by churchmen's hands"; and 480 to "texts from Moses."