Ср. более ранний, 1805 г., вариант этого же отрывка, в котором еще не фигурировали явственно ни губы, ни иные черты крестьянина:
By fortunate chance, / While every moment now encreased our doubts, / A peasant met us, and from him we learned / That to the place which had perplexed us first / We must descend, and there should find the road / Which in the stony channel of the stream / Lay a few steps, and then along its banks— / And further, that thenceforward all our course / Was downwards with the current of that stream. / Hard of belief, we questioned him again, / And all the answers which the man returned / To our inquiries, in their sense and substance / Translated by the feelings which we had, / Ended in this — that we had crossed the Alps. (1805. Book VI, 511-24.)
