Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises

There occur in this manuscript the following variations from Professor Woodberry's text of “The sensitive plant” --variations not mentioned by him, for some reason or other, in his footnotes or supplemental notes, and yet not canceled by Shelley:--

Three days the flowers of the garden fair
Like stars when the moon is awakened, were.

3.1-2.

[Moon is clearly morn in the Harvard Ms.]

And under the roots of the Sensitive Plant.

3.100.

[The prefatory And is not in the Harvard Ms.]

But the mandrakes and toadstools and docks and darnels
Rose like the dead from their ruined charnels.

3.112.

[The word brambles appears for mandrakes in the Harvard Ms.]

These three variations, all of which are interesting, are the only ones I have noted as uncanceled in this particular poem, beyond those recorded by Professor Woodberry. But there are many cases where the manuscript shows, in Shelley's own handwriting, variations subsequently canceled by him; and these deserve