Note 500 — 1820 (continued 2)
Reading edition
1827.
O Life! without thy chequered scene Of right and wrong, of weal and woe, Success and failure, could a ground For magnanimity be found? For faith, 'mid ruined hopes, serene? Or whence could virtue flow? 1832. Yet are we doomed our native dust
The edition of 1837 returns to the text of 1827.