“All along that quiet bay” (Poems [1891])—Without signaling or explaining the intervention in his edition, W. G. Collingwood omitted the first ten lines as found in the sole known witness, the MS VIII draft; and he slightly revised the eleventh line, omitting the conjunction, “And all along that quiet bay”. The opening line of the draft, “It was a little peaceful bay”, is similar to line 11, which Collingwood made into the opening line of his version, thus sacrificing the sense of a refrain. The omitted lines are restored in the Library Edition (see Ruskin, Works, 2:374 n. 1).

“And in the sleep of his profound / White villages shone silently”—Writing four years later in The Poetry of Architecture about villas on Lago di Como, Ruskin quoted himself, re‐using but altering these two lines: “Nothing, in fact, can be more beautiful than the intermingling of these bright lines with the darkness of the reversed cypresses seen against the deep azure of the distant hills in the crystalline waters of the lake, of which some one aptly says, ‘Deep within its azure rest, white villages sleep silently’; or than their columnar perspective, as village after village catches the light, and strikes the image to the very quietest recess of the narrow water, and the very farthest hollow of the folded hills” (Ruskin, Works, 1:92).

“The light sound of the oar [bladesʼ] dash” (Poems [1891])—The bracketed insertion is W. G. Collingwoodʼs, appearing solely in Poems. The Library Edition omits the insertion from the main copytext, rejecting the correction on the grounds that, in the MS VIII version, “the word o‐ar mak[es] two syllables”.

“Forth from the fastnesses it came / Of the high alps retiring chain” (Poems [1891])—Following the line, “And the gleam of the eternal snow”, W. G. Collingwood omitted these two lines from the version of the poem in Poems. The antecedent of the pronoun it is gleam. The omitted lines are restored in the Library Edition (see Ruskin, Works, 2:374 n. 4).