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In 1827 this poem occurs without title. [page 154:]
Variations of 1827 from the text.
Insert as first stanza the following:
A wilder’d being from my birth,
My spirit spurn’d control,
But now, abroad on the wide earth,
Where wanderest thou, my soul?
I. 2 dreamed (dream’d) II. 1 Ah! (And) 4 Turned (Turn’d) III. 3 cheered (cheer’d) 4 guiding. (:) IV. 1 though (tho’) 1 storm and (misty) 2 trembled from (dimly shone).
Variations of 1829 from the text.
I. 2 dreamed (dream’d) II. 1 Ah! (And) 4 Turned (Turn’d) III. 3 cheered (cheer’d) 4 guiding. (:) IV. 1 though (tho’) 4 star? (? —).
Broadway Journal shows no variations from the text.
EDITOR’S NOTE.
The waking dream of light and life has left him brokenhearted. Life is a dream to him who looks backward, but the dream has proved his guiding spirit, as bright as Truth's day-star.
It is difficult to ascertain what these past joys were.
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - JAH07, 1902] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (J. A. Harrison) (Notes to A Dream)