The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Chapter 49 : [Variant 42: 1842. Here watch, of every human friend disowned, All day, my ready tomb t

[Variant 42:

1842.

Here watch, of every human friend disowned, All day, my ready tomb the ocean-flood-- 1798.

Here will I live:--of every friend disown'd, Here will I roam about the ocean flood.-- 1802.

And end my days upon the ocean flood."-- 1815.]

[Variant 43:

1842.

By grief enfeebled was I turned adrift, Helpless as sailor cast on desart rock; 1798.

Helpless as sailor cast on some bare rock; 1836.]

[Variant 44:

1842.

Nor dared ... 1798.]

[Variant 45:

1802.

How dismal ... 1798.]

[Variant 46:

1832.

... frame ... 1798.]

[Variant 47:

1836.

So pa.s.sed another day, and so the third: Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort, 1798.]

[Variant 48:

1827.

Dizzy my brain, with interruption short 1798.

And I had many interruptions short 1802.]

[Variant 49:

1802.

... sunk ... 1798.]

[Variant 50:

1827.

And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital. 1798.

And thence was carried to a neighbouring Hospital. 1802.]

[Variant 51:

1827.

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.]