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Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of 'The Works of Lord Byron', in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. T
- 201 [379] ["Gems wrought into drinking-vessels, among which the least precious were framed of turquoise, jasper, or amethyst ... unnumbered jacinths, emeralds, sapphires, chrysolites, and topazes, and, lastly, those matchless carbuncles which, placed on
- 202 ----_empire's all-conquering foe_.--[MS. M.][392] [Compare _Marino Faliero_, act iv. sc. 2, lines 157, 158-- "Doge Dandolo survived to ninety summers, To vanquish empires, and refuse their crown.""The vessels that bore the bishops of S
- 203 [407] {348} ["Friuli's mountains" are the Julian Alps, which lie to the north of Trieste and north-east of Venice, "the h.o.a.r and aery Alps towards the north," which Julian and Count Maddalo (_vide post_, p. 349) saw from the Li
- 204 [422] {362} The celebrated letter of Servius Sulpicius to Cicero, on the death of his daughter, describes as it then was, and now is, a path which I often traced in Greece, both by sea and land, in different journeys and voyages. "On my return from A
- 205 1650), a.s.signs the outrage to a party of Venetians who "broke open Petrarch's tomb, in 1630, and took away some of his bones, probably with the object of selling them." Hobhouse, in _note_ ix., says, "that one of the arms was stolen
- 206 _Dares not ascend the summit_---- or, _Clothes a more rocky summit_----.--[MS. M. erased.][454] In the greater part of Switzerland, the avalanches are known by the name of lauwine.[Byron is again at fault with his German. "Lawine" (see Schiller,
- 207 [475] [Compare _As You Like It_, act ii. sc. 7, lines 26-28-- "And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale."][nx] {400} _For such existence is as much to die_.--[MS. M. erase
- 208 [490] {412} [The archaeologists of Byron's day were unable to fix the exact site of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline."On which side," asks Hobhouse (_Hist. Ill.u.s.t._, p. 224), "stood the citadel, on what the gr
- 209 [508] {425} [When Byron visited Rome, and for long afterwards, the ruins of the Colosseum were clad with a mult.i.tude of shrubs and wild flowers.Books were written on the "Flora of the Coliseum," which were said to number 420 species. But, says
- 210 [Hadrian's mole or mausoleum, now the Castle of St. Angelo, is situated on the banks of the Tiber, on the site of the "Horti Neronis." "It is composed of a square bas.e.m.e.nt, each side of which measures 247 feet....A grand circular m
- 211 Not a line of these lamentable effusions has survived; but the poor, pitiful story of common misfortune, with its tragic irony, uncommon circ.u.mstance, and far-reaching consequence, found its _vates sacer_ in the author of _Childe Harold_.][pz] {451} _He
- 212 "Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him."][552] ["While at Aberdeen, he used often to steal from home unperceived; sometimes he would find his way to the seaside" (_Life_, p.
- 213 "This vocal performance sounds best at a great distance, and is then inexpressibly charming, as it only fulfills its design in the sentiment of remoteness. It is plaintive, but not dismal in its sound, and at times it is scarcely possible to refrain
- 214 Every footstep of Laura's lover has been anxiously traced and recorded.The house in which he lodged is shown in Venice. The inhabitants of Arezzo, in order to decide the ancient controversy between their city and the neighbouring Ancisa, where Petrar
- 215 Stanza lvii. lines 2, 3, and 4.The elder Scipio Africa.n.u.s had a tomb if he was not buried at Liternum, whither he had retired to voluntary banishment. This tomb was near the sea-sh.o.r.e, and the story of an inscription upon it, _Ingrata Patria_, havin
- 216 But we must not be so much dazzled with his surpa.s.sing glory, or with his magnanimous, his amiable qualities, as to forget the decision of his impartial countrymen:-- HE WAS JUSTLY SLAIN.[653]27.Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal
- 217 Upon the blue Symplegades.Stanza clxxvi. line 1.[Lord Byron embarked from "Calpe's rock" (Gibraltar) August 19, 1809, and after travelling through Greece, he reached Constantinople in the _Salsette_ frigate May 14, 1810. The two island rock
- 218 [589] "Appa.s.sionato ammiratore ed invitto apologista dell' _Omero Ferrarese_." The t.i.tle was first given by Ta.s.so, and is quoted to the confusion of the _Ta.s.sisti_, lib. iii. pp. 262, 265. _La Vita di M. L.Ariosto, etc_.[590]"P
- 219 [628] _Storia delle Arti, etc._, lib. xi. cap. i.[629] Sueton., in _Vit. August._, cap. x.x.xi., and in _Vit. C. J. Caesar_, cap. lx.x.xviii. Appian says it was burnt down. See a note of Pitiscus to Suetonius, p. 224.[630] "Tu modo Pompeia lentus spa
- 220 [668] "Fortunae; hujusce diei." Cicero mentions her, _De Legib._, lib. ii. [669] DEae. NEMESI SIVE. FORTV Nae PISTORIVS RVGIANVS V.C. LEGAT. LEG. XIII. G. GORD. (See _Questiones Romanae, etc._, ap. Graev., _Antiq. Roman._, v. 942. See also Murat
- 221 The Works Of Lord Byron.Vol. 3.by Lord Byron.NOTES This etext contains characters from the Latin-1 set plus the following symbols from Unicode: the Greek alphabet and the letters a, i, and c (a and i with macron, c with accent). The work contains phrases
- 222 Our guides are gone, our hope is lost, And lightnings, as they play, But show where rocks our path have crost, Or gild the torrent's spray.3.Is yon a cot I saw, though low?When lightning broke the gloom-- How welcome were its shade!--ah, no!'Tis
- 223 Though Fate forbids such things to be,[l]Yet, by thine eyes and ringlets curled!I cannot _lose_ a _world_ for thee, But would not lose _thee_ for a _World_.[6]_November_ 14, 1809.[MS. M. First published, _Childe Harold_, 1812 (4to).]THE SPELL IS BROKE, TH
- 224 2.And deep embosomed in his shady groves Full many a convent rears its glittering spire, Mid scenes where Heavenly Contemplation loves To kindle in her soul her hallowed fire, Where air and sea with rocks and woods conspire To breathe a sweet religious ca
- 225 4.Nor need I write--to tell the tale My pen were doubly weak: Oh! what can idle words avail,[q]Unless the heart could speak?5.By day or night, in weal or woe, That heart, no longer free, Must bear the love it cannot show, And silent ache for thee._March_,
- 226 [First published, _Life_, 1830.]TO THYRZA.[t][29]Without a stone to mark the spot,[30]And say, what Truth might well have said,[u]By all, save one, perchance forgot, Ah! wherefore art thou lowly laid?By many a sh.o.r.e and many a sea[v]Divided, yet belove
- 227 My Thyrza's pledge in better days,[ap]When Love and Life alike were new!How different now thou meet'st my gaze!How tinged by time with Sorrow's hue!The heart that gave itself with thee Is silent--ah, were mine as still!Though cold as e'
- 228 6.I know not if I could have borne[bf]To see thy beauties fade; The night that followed such a morn Had worn a deeper shade: Thy day without a cloud hath pa.s.sed,[bg]And thou wert lovely to the last; Extinguished, not decayed; As stars that shoot along t
- 229 When thou wert changed, they altered too; The chain is broke, the music mute, 'Tis past--to them and thee adieu-- False heart, frail chain, and silent lute.[MS. M. First published, _Corsair_, 1814 (Second Edition).]LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF _T
- 230 "When in your fostering beams you bid us live,"My next subscription list shall say how much you give![First published, _Morning Chronicle_, October 23, 1812.]VERSES FOUND IN A SUMMER-HOUSE AT HALES-OWEN.[46]When Dryden's fool, "unknowi
- 231 My wounded soul, my bleeding breast, Can patience preach thee into rest?Alas! too late, I dearly know That Joy is harbinger of Woe.[First published, _Childe Harold_, 1814 (Seventh Edition).]THOU ART NOT FALSE, BUT THOU ART FICKLE.[bu][50]1.Thou art not fa
- 232 7.Far may thy days, as heretofore,[cc]From this our gaudy world be past!And that too bitter moment o'er, Oh! may such trial be thy last.8.This heart, alas! perverted long, Itself destroyed might there destroy; To meet thee in the glittering throng, W
- 233 [a] {1} _For thou hast never lived to see_.--[MS. M. erased.][b] {2} _The Saxon maids_----.--[MS. M.][2] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza lviii. lines 8, 9, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 59, note 1.][3] {3} [For "Bolero," see _Poetical Wo
- 234 [q] {24} _Oh! what can tongue or pen avail_ _Unless my heart could speak_.--[MS. M.][19] [These lines, which are undoubtedly genuine, were published for the first time in the sixth edition of _Poems on his Domestic Circ.u.mstances_ (W. Hone, 1816). They w
- 235 [ac] {35} _Stanzas_.--[MS. Editions 1812-1832.][31] ["I wrote it a day or two ago, on hearing a song of former days."--Letter to Hodgson, December 8, 1811, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 82.][ad] _I dare not hear_----.--[MS. erased.][ae] _But hush the cho
- 236 [bk] {45} _Sympathetic Address to a Young Lady_.--[_Morning Chronicle_, March 7, 1812.][35] [The scene which begat these memorable stanzas was enacted at a banquet at Carlton House, February 22, 1812. On March 6 the following quatrain, ent.i.tled, "I
- 237 [47] [See Dryden's _Cymon and Iphigenia_, lines 84, 85.][48] [The sequel of a temporary liaison formed by Lord Byron during his career in London, occasioned this impromptu. On the cessation of the connection, the fair one [Lady C. Lamb: see _Letters_
- 238 Murray's possession. At the end of July, and during the first half of August, two or more issues of a third edition were set up in type. The first issue amounted to 53 pages, containing 950 lines, was certainly published in this form, and possibly a
- 239 BYRON.London, _May_, 1813.ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nT.The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circ.u.mstances now less common in the East than formerly; either because the ladies are more circ.u.mspect than in the "olden time,"
- 240 Woe to that hour he came or went!The curse for Ha.s.san's sin was sent 280 To turn a palace to a tomb; He came, he went, like the Simoom,[73]That harbinger of Fate and gloom, Beneath whose widely-wasting breath The very cypress droops to death-- Dark
- 241 The bickering sabres' s.h.i.+vering jar; And pealing wide or ringing near Its echoes on the throbbing ear, The deathshot hissing from afar; The shock, the shout, the groan of war, 640 Reverberate along that vale, More suited to the shepherd's ta
- 242 "Father! thy, days have pa.s.sed in peace, 'Mid counted beads, and countless prayer; To bid the sins of others cease, Thyself without a crime or care, Save transient ills that all must bear, Has been thy lot from youth to age; And thou wilt bles
- 243 "Such is my name, and such my tale.Confessor! to thy secret ear 1320 I breathe the sorrows I bewail, And thank thee for the generous tear This glazing eye could never shed.Then lay me with the humblest dead,[ew]And, save the cross above my head, Be n
- 244 [co] _Commenced by Sire--renewed by Son_.--[MS.][cp]_Attest it many a former age_ _While kings in dark oblivion hid_.--[MS.][cq] _There let the Muse direct thine eye_.--[MS.][cr] {93} _The hearts amid thy mountains bred_.--[MS.][64] Athens is the property
- 245 or, _The famished fox the wild dog gaunt_ _May vainly for its waters pant_.--[MS.][dg] _Might strike an echo_----.--[MS.][dh] {102} _And welcome Life though but in one_ _For many a gilded chamber's there_ _Unmeet for Solitude to share_.--- [MS.][75]
- 246 [Sale, in his _Preliminary Discourse_ ("Chandos Cla.s.sics," p. 80), in dealing with this question, notes "that there are several pa.s.sages in the Koran which affirm that women, in the next life, will not only be punished for their evil ac
- 247 [111] [For "Caloyer," see _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza xlix. line 6, and note 21, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 130, 181. It is a hard matter to piece together the "fragments" which make up the rest of the poem. Apparently the quest
- 248 [es] {141} _I have no heart to love him now_ _And 'tis but to declare my end_.--[ms][et]_But now Remembrance murmurs o'er_ _Of all our early youth had been_-- _In pain, I now had turned aside_ _To bless his memory ere I died_, _But Heaven would
- 249 5. Four sheets of notes to Canto I. stanza vi., dated November 20, November 22, 1813.6. Two sheets of notes to stanza xvi.7. Sixteen additional lines to stanza xiii.The fourteen additional sheets to Canto II. consist of-- 1. Ten lines of stanza iv., and f
- 250 Till I, who heard the deep tambour[130]Beat thy Divan's approaching hour, To thee, and to my duty true, Warned by the sound, to greet thee flew: But there Zuleika wanders yet-- Nay, Father, rage not--nor forget That none can pierce that secret bower
- 251 He lived--he breathed--he moved--he felt; He raised the maid from where she knelt; His trance was gone, his keen eye shone With thoughts that long in darkness dwelt; 330 With thoughts that burn--in rays that melt.As the stream late concealed By the fringe
- 252 They reached at length a grotto, hewn By nature, but enlarged by art, Where oft her lute she wont to tune, And oft her Koran conned apart; And oft in youthful reverie She dreamed what Paradise might be: Where Woman's parted soul shall go Her Prophet
- 253 Aye! let me like the ocean-Patriarch[173] roam, 870 Or only know on land the Tartar's home![174]My tent on sh.o.r.e, my galley on the sea, Are more than cities and Serais to me:[175]Borne by my steed, or wafted by my sail, Across the desert, or befor
- 254 Peace to thy broken heart--and virgin grave!Ah! happy! but of life to lose the worst!That grief--though deep--though fatal--was thy first!Thrice happy! ne'er to feel nor fear the force Of absence--shame--pride--hate--revenge--remorse!And, oh! that pa
- 255 [fa] _Canto 1^st^ The Bride of Abydos. Nov. 1^st^ 1813_.--[MS.][fb] {159} _The changing cheek and knitting brow_.--[MS. i.][fc]_Hence--bid my daughter hither come_ _This hour decides her future doom--_ _Yet not to her these words express_ _But lead her fr
- 256 [ft] _The day that teareth thee from me_.--[MS.][147] "Azrael," the angel of death.[fu] _When comes that hour and come it must_.--[MS. erased.][fv] {172} _Which thanks to terror and the dark_ _Hath missed a trifle of its mark._--[MS.][The couple
- 257 [Compare _Lalla Rookh_ ("Chandos Cla.s.sics," p. 373)--"The flas.h.i.+ng of their swords' rich marquetry."][164] {187} It is to be observed, that every allusion to any thing or personage in the Old Testament, such as the Ark, or C
- 258 [178] {197} "Jannat-al-Aden," the perpetual abode, the Mussulman paradise. [See Sale's _Koran_, "Preliminary Discourse," sect. i.; and _Journal_, November 17, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 326.][gs] _Wait on thy voice and bow at thy
- 259 ["But here (at Gloucester) is a _modernity_, which beats all antiquities for curiosity. Just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains of the same; a small corner-cupboard, painted, carved, and gilt, for books, in one cor
- 260 The Seventh Edition contained four additional lines (the last four of stanza xi.), and a note (unnumbered) to line 226, in defence of the _vraisemblance_ of the _Corsair's_ misanthropy. The Ninth Edition numbered 112 pages. The additional matter cons
- 261 "Aye! at set of sun: The breeze will freshen when the day is done.My corslet--cloak--one hour and we are gone. 160 Sling on thy bugle--see that free from rust My carbine-lock springs worthy of my trust; Be the edge sharpened of my boarding-brand, And
- 262 See, I have plucked the fruit that promised best, And where not sure, perplexed, but pleased, I guessed At such as seemed the fairest; thrice the hill My steps have wound to try the coolest rill; Yes! thy Sherbet to-night will sweetly flow, See how it spa
- 263 It s.h.i.+nes a lake of fire!--away--away!Ho! treachery! my guards! my scimitar!The galleys feed the flames--and I afar!Accursed Dervise!--these thy tidings--thou Some villain spy--seize--cleave him--slay him now!"Up rose the Dervise with that burst
- 264 She gazed in wonder, "Can he calmly sleep, While other eyes his fall or ravage weep?And mine in restlessness are wandering here-- What sudden spell hath made this man so dear? 1030 True--'tis to him my life, and more, I owe, And me and mine he s
- 265 It came at last--a sad and shattered boat, Whose inmates first beheld whom first they sought; Some bleeding--all most wretched--these the few-- Scarce knew they how escaped--_this_ all they knew.In silence, darkling, each appeared to wait His fellow'
- 266 "Gulnare--Gulnare--I never felt till now My abject fortune, withered fame so low: Seyd is mine enemy; had swept my band From earth with ruthless but with open hand, And therefore came I, in my bark of war, 1530 To smite the smiter with the scimitar;
- 267 Its lips are silent--twice his own essayed, And failed to frame the question they delayed; He s.n.a.t.c.hed the lamp--its light will answer all-- It quits his grasp, expiring in the fall. 1760 He would not wait for that reviving ray-- As soon could he hav
- 268 [202] {237} [Lines 277-280 are not in the MS. They were inserted on a detached printed sheet, with a view to publication in the Seventh Edition.][hr] {238} _Not Guilt itself could quench this earliest one_.--[MS.erased.][hs] {239} _Now to Francesca_.--[MS
- 269 155-176. He gives (p. 174) a striking description of a _sunrise_ off the Cape of Sunium.][226] {271} Socrates drank the hemlock a short time before sunset (the hour of execution), notwithstanding the entreaties of his disciples to wait till the sun went d
- 270 It would appear that early in September, 1814, a British officer, Colonel E. Nicholls, made overtures to Jean Lafitte, offering him the rank of captain in the British army, a grant of lands, and a sum of $30,000 if he would join forces with the British sq
- 271 VIII.The Spaniard, when the l.u.s.t of sway Had lost its quickening spell,[252]Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell; A strict accountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well:[253]Yet better had he neither know
- 272 [245] {306} [Stanzas ii. and iii. were added in Proof iv.][246] [A "spell" may be broken, but it is difficult to understand how, like the two halves of a seal or amulet, a broken spell can "unite again."][247] "Certaminis _gaudia_
- 273 _Morning Chronicle_, April 27, 1814.]LARA: A TALE.INTRODUCTION TO _LARA_ The MS. of _Lara_ is dated May 14, 1814. The opening lines, which were not prefixed to the published poem, and were first printed in _Murray's Magazine_ (January, 1887), are of
- 274 Why heard no music, and received no guest?All was not well, they deemed--but where the wrong?[271]Some knew perchance--but 'twere a tale too long; 150 And such besides were too discreetly wise, To more than hint their knowledge in surmise; But if the
- 275 Art thou not he? whose deeds----"[jx]"Whate'er I be, Words wild as these, accusers like to thee, I list no further; those with whom they weigh May hear the rest, nor venture to gainsay The wondrous tale no doubt thy tongue can tell, Which t
- 276 Where was this Ezzelin? who came and went, To leave no other trace of his intent.He left the dome of Otho long ere morn, In darkness, yet so well the path was worn He could not miss it: near his dwelling lay; But there he was not, and with coming day Came
- 277 The foe arrives, who long had searched the field, Their triumph nought till Lara too should yield: They would remove him, but they see 'twere vain, And he regards them with a calm disdain, 1080 That rose to reconcile him with his fate, And that escap
- 278 _Marmion_, Canto III. stanza xv. lines 19-22.][272] [Compare-- "Sweetly s.h.i.+ning on the eye, A rivulet gliding smoothly by; Which shows with what an easy tide The moments of the happy glide."Dyer's _Country Walk_ (_Poetical Works of Arms
- 279 [ko] {355} _The Beauty--which the first success would s.n.a.t.c.h_.--[MS.][kp] {356} _A word's enough to rouse mankind to kill_ _Some factions phrase by cunning raised and spread_.--[MS.][kq] {357} ----_upon the battle slain_.--[Ed. 1831.][kr] {358}
- 280 SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY.[287]I.She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.II.One sh
- 281 II.There--where thy finger scorched the tablet stone!There--where thy shadow to thy people shone!Thy glory shrouded in its garb of fire: Thyself--none living see and not expire!III.Oh! in the lightning let thy glance appear; Sweep from his s.h.i.+vered ha
- 282 III.Thy name, our charging hosts along, Shall be the battle-word!Thy fall, the theme of choral song From virgin voices poured!To weep would do thy glory wrong: Thou shalt not be deplored.SAUL.I.Thou whose spell can raise the dead, Bid the Prophet's f
- 283 Away--away--without a wing, O'er all--through all--its thought shall fly, A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.Seaham, 1815.VISION OF BELSHAZZAR.[299]I.The King was on his throne, The Satraps thronged the hall:[lx]A thousand br
- 284 I.From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome,[mg]I beheld thee, oh Sion! when rendered to Rome:[mh]'Twas thy last sun went down, and the flames of thy fall Flashed back on the last glance I gave to thy wall.II.I looked for thy temple--I look
- 285 A SPIRIT Pa.s.sED BEFORE ME.FROM JOB.I.A spirit pa.s.sed before me: I beheld The face of Immortality unveiled-- Deep Sleep came down on every eye save mine-- And there it stood,--all formless--but divine: Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake; And a
- 286 [298] {395} [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza lx.x.xii.lines 8, 9-- "Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 73, and note 16, p. 93.][lt
- 287 Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal availed on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.'Twere vain to speak--to weep--to sigh: Oh! more than tears of blood can tell, When wrung from Guilt's exp
- 288 Oh! thine be the gladness, and mine be the guilt![my]Forgive me, adored one!--forsake, if thou wilt;-- But the heart which is thine shall expire undebased[mz]And _man_ shall not break it--whatever _thou_ mayst.[na]4.And stern to the haughty, but humble to
- 289 3.The naked Stranger rose, and wrung his hair, And that first moment pa.s.sed in silent prayer.Alas! the sound--he sunk into Despair-- He was on Earth--but what was Earth to him, Houseless and homeless--bare both breast and limb?Cut off from all but Memor
- 290 Bright be the place of thy soul!No lovelier spirit than thine E'er burst from its mortal control, In the orbs of the blessed to s.h.i.+ne.On earth thou wert all but divine, As thy soul shall immortally be;[nk]And our sorrow may cease to repine When w
- 291 Whose realm refused thee ev'n a tomb;[325]Better hadst thou still been leading France o'er hosts of hirelings bleeding, Than sold thyself to death and shame For a meanly royal name; Such as he of Naples wears, Who thy blood-bought t.i.tle bears.
- 292 [mr] {410} _Never may I behold_ _Moment like this_.--[MS.][ms]_The damp of the morning_ _Clung chill on my brow_.--[MS. erased.][mt] _Thy vow hath been broken_.--[MS.][mu]----_lies hidden_ _Our secret of sorrow_-- _And deep in my soul_-- _But deed more fo
- 293 [320] ["All wept, but particularly Savary, and a Polish officer who had been exalted from the ranks by Buonaparte. He clung to his master's knees; wrote a letter to Lord Keith, entreating permission to accompany him, even in the most menial capa
- 294 FRIEND._January 22nd_, 1816.ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nT "The grand army of the Turks (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into the heart of the Morea, and to form the siege of Napoli di Romania, the most considerable place in all that
- 295 The chiefs of Venice wrung away From Patra to Euboea's bay,) Minotti held in Corinth's towers[oo]The Doge's delegated powers, While yet the pitying eye of Peace 220 Smiled o'er her long forgotten Greece: And ere that faithless truce wa
- 296 Sent that soft and tender moan?[365]He lifted his head, and he looked on the sea, But it was unrippled as gla.s.s may be; He looked on the long gra.s.s--it waved not a blade; How was that gentle sound conveyed?He looked to the banners--each flag lay still
- 297 From right to left his sabre swept: Many an Othman mother wept Sons that were unborn, when dipped[390]His weapon first in Moslem gore, Ere his years could count a score. 800 Of all he might have been the sire[391]Who fell that day beneath his ire: For, so
- 298 [333] [The metrical rendering of the date (miscalculated from the death instead of the birth of Christ) may be traced to the opening lines of an old ballad (Kolbing's _Siege of Corinth_, p. 53)-- "Upon the sixteen hunder year Of G.o.d, and fifty
- 299 [350] {461} [Compare Scott's _Marmion_, III. xvi. 4-- "And that strange Palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear."][ot]----_by fancy framed_, _Which rings a deep, internal knell_, _A visionary pa.s.sing-bell._--[MS. G. erase
- 300 _Monuments that the coming age_ _Leaves to the spoil of the season's rage_-- _Till Ruin makes the relics scarce_, _Then Learning acts her solemn farce_, _And, roaming through the marble waste_, _Prates of beauty, art, and taste_.XIX._That Temple was