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Next winter you must pass with me; I’ll have
My house by that time turned into a grave
Of dead despondence and low-thoughted care,
And all the dreams which our tormentors are; 295
Oh! that Hunt, Hogg, Peacock, and Smith were there,
With everything belonging to them fair!–
We will have books, Spanish, Italian, Greek;
And ask one week to make another week
As like his father, as I’m unlike mine, 300
Which is not his fault, as you may divine.
Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let’s be merry: we’ll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, 305
And other such lady-like luxuries,–
Feasting on which we will philosophize!
And we’ll have fires out of the Grand Duke’s wood,
To thaw the six weeks’ winter in our blood.
And then we’ll talk;–what shall we talk about? 310
Oh! there are themes enough for many a bout
Of thought-entangled descant;–as to nerves–
With cones and parallelograms and curves
I’ve sworn to strangle them if once they dare
To bother me–when you are with me there. 315
And they shall never more sip laudanum,
From Helicon or Himeros (1);–well, come,
And in despite of God and of the devil,
We’ll make our friendly philosophic revel
Outlast the leafless time; till buds and flowers 320
Warn the obscure inevitable hours,
Sweet meeting by sad parting to renew;–
‘To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new.’

NOTES:
13 must Bos. manuscript; most edition 1824.
27 philanthropic Bos. manuscript; philosophic edition 1824.
29 so 1839, 2nd edition; They owed… edition 1824.
36 Which fishers Bos. manuscript; Which fishes edition 1824;
With fishes editions 1839.
38 rarely transcript; seldom editions 1824, 1839.
61 lava–cry]lava-cry editions 1824, 1839.
63 towers transcript; towns editions 1824, 1839.
84 queer Bos. manuscript; green transcript, editions 1824, 1839.
92 odd hooks transcript; old books editions 1839 (an evident misprint);
old hooks edition 1824.
93 A]An edition 1824.
100 those transcript; them editions 1824, 1839.
101 lead Bos. manuscript; least transcript, editions 1824, 1839.
127 eye Bos. manuscript, transcript, editions 1839; age edition 1824.
140 knew Bos. manuscript; know transcript, editions 1824, 1839.
144 citing Bos. manuscript; acting transcript, editions 1824, 1839.
151 Feasts transcript; Treats editions 1824, 1839.
153 As well it]As it well editions 1824, 1839.
158 believe, and]believe; or editions 1824, 1839.
173 their transcript; the editions 1824, 1839.
188 aethereal transcript; aereal editions 1824, 1839.
197-201 See notes Volume 3.
202 Coleridge]C– edition 1824. So too H–t l. 209; H– l. 226;
P– l. 233; H.S. l. 250; H– — and — l. 296.
205 lightning Bos. manuscript, transcript; lustre editions 1824, 1839.
224 read Bos. manuscript; said transcript, editions 1824, 1839.
244 time Bos. manuscript, transcript; age editions 1824, 1839.
245 the transcript: a editions 1824, 1839.
272, 273 found in the 2nd edition of P. W., 1839;
wanting in transcript, edition 1824 and 1839, 1st. edition.
276 that transcript; who editions 1824, 1839.
288 the transcript; a editions 1824, 1839.
296 See notes Volume 3.
299, 300 So 1839, 2nd edition; wanting in editions 1824, 1839, 1st.
301 So transcript; wanting in editions 1824, 1839.
317 well, come 1839, 2nd edition; we’ll come editions 1824, 1839. 1st.
318 despite of God] transcript; despite of… edition 1824;
spite of… editions 1839.

(317 Imeros, from which the river Himera was named, is, with some
slight shade of difference, a synonym of Love.–[SHELLEY’S NOTE.]