Note 357:1 — THE SNOW-DROP[356:1]
Reading edition
The second stanza of Mrs. Robinson's ('Perdita') 'Ode to the Snow-drop' runs thus:
All weak and wan, with head inclin'd, Its parent-breast the drifted snow, It trembles, while the ruthless wind Bends its slim form; the tempest lowers, Its em'rald eye drops crystal show'rs On its cold bed below.
The Poetical Works of the late Mrs. Mary Robinson, 1806, i. 123.