Note 2 — Early Poems (continued 2)

Here follow in 1833 two stanzas excised in 1842:— In every land I thought that, more or less, The stronger sterner nature overbore The softer, uncontrolled by gentleness And selfish evermore: And whether there were any means whereby, In some far aftertime, the gentler mind Might reassume its just and full degree Of rule among mankind.