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A heartache and a loneliness
- Enchanted waters pitiless.'
A summer maned etc.

[heartache was the original reading of B at 651 x, changed later to
hunger, but retained at 1223.]

653-72. Of this admirable passage Peabody remarks: 'It is as if
the wood itself were speaking.'

677-9. LH From dim cave the damp moon eyed
White mists that float from earth to hide
The sluggard morrow's sun and drip

[No alteration made to the text.]

683. Beat, which is utterly inappropriate to the sound
described, must be a corruption. No plausible
emendation has been suggested.

[My father scribbled in a hesitant substitute for beat and a different
form for line 684 (of his own feet on leafy....) but I cannot read the
rhyming words.)

685-708. In praise of this passage I need not add to the in-
numerable eulogies of my predecessors.

710. Bentley read sam far off, to avoid the ugliness that
always results from w-final followed by an initial
vowel in the next word.

[The reading criticised was saw afar, and the line was changed as
suggested.)

715. Stole he PRK. He stole JHL. PRK looks like the
metrical 'improvement' of a scribe: dearly bought by
a meaningless inversion.

[The reading criticised was Then stole he nigh, changed to Then nigh
he stole.)

727 - 45 This passage, as it stands, is seriously corrupt, though
the beauty of the original can still be discerned.

[See the following notes.]



[The original reading of B in lines 729 - 30 was: