Note 33 — Early Poems (continued 2)

Here added in 1842 and remaining till 1851 when they were excised are two stanzas:— “From shape to shape at first within the womb The brain is modell’d,” she began, “And thro’ all phases of all thought I come Into the perfect man. “All nature widens upward. Evermore The simpler essence lower lies: More complex is more perfect, owning more Discourse, more widely wise.”