Note 17 — Early Poems (continued 2)

Thus in 1833:— Or that deep-wounded child of Pendragon Mid misty woods on sloping greens Dozed in the valley of Avilion, Tended by crowned queens. The present reading is that of 1842. The reference is, of course, to King Arthur, the supposed son of Uther Pendragon. In 1833 the following stanza, excised in 1842, followed:— Or blue-eyed Kriemhilt from a craggy hold, Athwart the light-green rows of vine, Poured blazing hoards of Nibelungen gold, Down to the gulfy Rhine.