While Evening's solemn bird melodious weeps, Heard, by star-spotted bays, beneath the steeps; Only in the editions of 1815 and 1820.] [Variant 33: 1836. --Thy lake, mid smoking woods, that blue and grey Gleams, streaked or dappled, hid from morning's ray 1815. As beautiful the flood where blue or grey Dappled, or streaked, as hid from morning's ray. C.] [Variant 34: 1836. ... to fold 1815.] [Variant 35: 1836. From thickly-glittering spires the matin bell Calling the woodman from his desert cell, A summons to the sound of oars, that pass, Spotting the steaming deeps, to early mass; Slow swells the service o'er the water born, While fill each pause the ringing woods of morn. 1815. Calls forth the woodman with its cheerful knell. C.] [Variant 36: This couplet was first added in 1845.] [Variant 37: 1845. Farewell those forms that in thy noon-tide shade, Rest, near their little plots of wheaten glade; 1820. Ye lovely forms that in the noontide shade Rest near their little plots of wheaten glade. C.] [Variant 38: 1845. Those charms that bind ... 1820.] [Variant 39: 1836. And winds, ... 1820.] [Variant 40: 1836. Yet arts are thine that soothe the unquiet heart, And smiles to Solitude and Want impart. I lov'd, 'mid thy most desart woods astray, With pensive step to measure my slow way, By lonely, silent cottage-doors to roam, The far-off peasant's day-deserted home. 1820. I loved by silent cottage-doors to roam, The far-off peasant's day-deserted home; 1827. These two lines take the place of the second and third couplets of the 1820 text quoted above.] [Variant 41: 1836. Once did I pierce to where a cabin stood; The red-breast peace had buried it in wood, 1820. And once I pierced the mazes of a wood, Where, far from public haunt, a cabin stood; 1827.] [Variant 42: 1836. There, by the door a hoary-headed Sire Touched with his withered hand an ancient lyre; 1820.] [Variant 43: 1836. This and the following line were expanded from Beneath an old-grey oak, as violets lie, 1820.] [Variant 44: 1836. ... joined the holy sound; 1820.] [Variant 45: 1836. While ... 1820.] [Variant 46: 1845. Bend o'er th' abyss, the else impervious gloom 1820. Hang o'er th' abyss:--... 1827. ... the abyss:--... 1832.] [Variant 47: 1836. Freshening the waste of sand with shades and springs. --_She_, solitary, through the desart drear Spontaneous wanders, hand in hand with Fear. 1820. By choice or doom a gipsy wanders here, Companionless, or hand in hand with fear; Lo! where she sits beneath yon shaggy rock, A cowering shape half-seen through curling smoke. MS.] [Variant 48: 1836.