[ad] _I dare not hear_----.--[MS. erased.] [ae] _But hush the chords_----.--[MS. erased.] [af] ----_I dare not gaze_.--[MS. erased.] [ag] _The voice that made that song more sweet_.--[MS.] [ah] _'Tis silent now_----.--[MS.] [ai] {36} _To Thyrza_.--[Editions 1812-1831.] [aj] _From pangs that tear_----.--[MS.] _Such pangs that tear_----.--[MS. erased.] [ak] _With things that moved me not before_.--[MS. erased.] [al] _What sorrow cannot_----.--[MS.] [am] _It would not be, so hadst not thou_ _Withdrawn so soon_----.--[MS. erased.] [an] {38} _--how oft I said_.--[MS. erased.] [ao] _Like freedom to the worn-out slave_.--[MS.] _But Health and life returned and gave_, _A boon 'twas idle then to give_, _Relenting Health in mocking gave_.--[MS. B. M. erased.] [32] [Compare _My Epitaph:_ "Youth, Nature and relenting Jove."--Letter to Hodgson, October 3, 1810, _Letters_, 1898, i. 298.] [ap] _Dear simple gift_----.--[MS. erased.] [33] {39} Compare _A Wish_, by Matthew Arnold, stanza 3, etc.-- "Spare me the whispering, crowded room, The friends who come and gape and go," etc. [aq] {41} _Stanzas_.--[Editions 1812-1831.] [34] ["The Lovers' Walk is terminated with an ornamental urn, inscribed to Miss Dolman, a beautiful and amiable relation of Mr. Shenstone's, who died of the small-pox, about twenty-one years of age, in the following words on one side:-- 'Peramabili consobrinæ M.D.' On the other side-- 'Ah! Maria! pvellarvm elegantissima! ah Flore venvstatis abrepta, vale! hev qvanto minvs est cvm reliqvis versari qvam tui meminisse.'" (From a _Description of the Leasowes_, by A. Dodsley; _Poetical Works_ of William Shenstone [1798], p. xxix.)] [ar] _Are mingled with the Earth_.--[MS.] _Were never meant for Earth_.--[MS. erased.] [as] _Unhonoured with the vulgar dread_.--[MS. erased.] [at] {42} _I will not ask where thou art laid,_ _Nor look upon the name_.--[MS. erased.] [au] _So I shall know it not_.--[MS. erased.] [av] _Like common dust can rot_.--[MS.] [aw] _I would not wish to see nor touch_.--[MS. erased.] [ax] _As well as warm as thou_.--[MS. erased.] [ay] MS. transposes lines 5 and 6 of stanza 3. [az] _Nor frailty disavow_.--[MS.] [ba] _Nor canst thou fair and faultless see_.--[MS. erased.] [bb] _Nor wrong, nor change, nor fault in me_.--[MS.] [bc] {43} _The cloud that cheers_----.--[MS.] [bd] _The sweetness of that silent deep_.--[MS.] [be] _The flower in beauty's bloom unmatched_ _Is still the earliest prey_.--[MS.] _The rose by some rude fingers snatched_, _Is earliest doomed to fade_.--[MS. erased.] [bf] _I do not deem I could have borne_.--[MS.] [bg] _But night and day of thine are passed_, _And thou wert lovely to the last;_ _Destroyed_----.--[MS. erased.] [bh] {44} _As stars that seem to quit the sky_.--[MS.]