Recovery came with food: but still, my brain Was weak, nor of the past had memory. 1798.] [Variant 52: 1842. ... with careless cruelty, 1798.] [Variant 53: 1815. ... would ... 1798.] [Variant 54: 1836. ... torpid ... 1798.] [Variant 55: 1827. Memory, though slow, returned with strength; ... 1798. My memory and my strength returned; ... 1802.] [Variant 56: 1802. The wild brood ... 1798.] [Variant 57: The following stanza occurs only in the editions of 1798 to 1805: My heart is touched to think that men like these, The rude earth's tenants, were my first relief: How kindly did they paint their vagrant ease! And their long holiday that feared not grief, For all belonged to all, and each was chief. No plough their sinews strained; on grating road No wain they drove, and yet, the yellow sheaf In every vale for their delight was stowed: For them, in nature's meads, the milky udder flowed. 1798. My heart is touched to think that men like these, Wild houseless Wanderers, were my first relief: 1802. In every field, with milk their dairy overflow'd. 1802.] [Variant 58: 1836. Semblance, with straw and pannier'd ass, they made Of potters wandering on from door to door: But life of happier sort to me pourtrayed, 1798. They with their pannier'd Asses semblance made Of Potters ... 1802.] [Variant 59: 1836. In depth of forest glade, when ... 1798. Among the forest glades when ... 1802.] [Variant 60: 1802. But ill it suited me, in journey dark 1798.] [Variant 61: 1802. Poor father! ... 1798.] [Variant 62: 1842. Ill was I ... 1798.] [Variant 63: 1842. With tears whose course no effort could confine, By high-way side forgetful would I sit 1798. By the road-side forgetful would I sit 1802. In the open air forgetful ... 1836.] [Variant 64: 1836. ... my ... 1798.] [Variant 65: 1836. I lived upon the mercy of the fields, And oft of cruelty the sky accused; On hazard, or what general bounty yields, 1798. I led a wandering life among the fields; Contentedly, yet sometimes self-accused, I liv'd upon what casual bounty yields, 1802.] [Variant 66: 1802. The fields ... 1798.] [Variant 67: 1836. Three years a wanderer, often have I view'd, In tears, the sun towards that country tend 1798. Three years thus wandering, ... 1802.] [Variant 68: 1836. And now across this moor my steps I bend-- 1798.] * * * * * FOOTNOTES [Footnote A: In the 'Prelude', he says it was "three summer days." See book xiii. l. 337.--Ed.]