George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 2 (of 3)
Part II.
_instead of_ ll. 29-34:
Compell’d to feast in full delight When I was sad and wanted power, Can I forget that dismal night? Ah! how did I survive the hour?
_instead of_ ll. 39-41:
And there my father-husband stood-- I felt no words can tell you how-- As he was wont in angry mood, And thus he cried, “Will God allow,
Preface: p. 92, l. 21. _The following footnote to the words_, His Dedication, _was omitted in Vol. I_: Neither of these were adopted. The author had written, about that time, some verses to the memory of Lord Robert Manners, brother to the late Duke of Rutland; and these, by a junction, it is presumed, not forced or unnatural, form the concluding part of “The Village.”
END OF VOL. II.
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