“Hung on the precipice” (Poems [1891])—“Hung oʼer the precipice” in MS VIII and Works (1903).

“I thought as, by the cross I past / . . . / As he did” (Poems [1891])—W. G. Collingwood omitted lines 30–58, the entire second half of Ruskinʼs holograph poem, which contains the story of Gough and his dog. The lines were restored by the editors of the Library Edition.

“Though sun and rain might work their will / From bird and wolf protected still / For he had one companion, one, / Watched oer him in the desert lone / That faithful dog beside sat aye, / Baying the vulture from his prey” (MS VIII; Works [1903])—Compare Walter Scott, “Hellvellyn”: “Like the corpse of an outcast abandonʼd to weather / Till the mountain‐winds wasted the tenantless clay. / Not yet quite deserted, though lonely extended, / For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, / The much‐loved remains of her master defended, / And chased the hill‐fox and the raven away” (Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, 6:371).

“Rung his short plaintive timid cry” (MS VIII; Works [1903])—Compare Wordsworth, “Fidelity”: “Repeating the same timid cry” (Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (4:256).

“Would that, we could love / As he did” (MS VIII; Works [1903])—Compare Wordsworth, “Fidelity”: “He knows, who gave that love sublime; / And gave that strength of feeling, great / Above all human estimate” (Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (4:256).