phantasy." The alterations are usually for the better. The daffodil
is not an aquatic plant, as the poet seems to assert in the first
form -


"The yellow-leaved water-lily,
The green sheathed daffodilly,
Tremble in the water chilly,
Round about Shalott."


Nobody can prefer to keep


"Though the squally east wind keenly
Blew, with folded arms serenely
By the water stood the queenly
Lady of Shalott."


However stoical the Lady may have been, the reader is too seriously
sympathetic with her inevitable discomfort -


"All raimented in snowy white
That loosely flew,"


as she was. The original conclusion was distressing; we were dropped
from the airs of mysterious romance:-