George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 2 (of 3)

Part I.

Chapter 2764 wordsPublic domain

_Instead of_ ll. 9-12:

What is my crime? a deed of love; I fed my child with pilfer’d food: Your laws will not the act approve, The law of Nature deems it good.

_instead of_ ll. 43-6:

My years, indeed, are sad and few, Though weak these limbs, and shrunk this frame: For Grief has done what Time should do; And I am old in care and shame.