eed of the thought thus expanded
into full perfection by genius: "The present state of Greece, compared
to the ancient, is the silent obscurity of the grave contrasted with the
vivid lustre of active life."--Moore, _Note to Edition_ 1832.]

[62] {91} [From hence to the conclusion of the paragraph, the MS. is
written in a hurried and almost illegible hand, as if these splendid
lines had been poured forth in one continuous burst of poetic feeling,
which would hardly allow time for the pen to follow the
imagination.--(_Note to Edition_ 1837. The lines were added to the
Second Edition.)]

[cl] _Fountain of Wisdom! can it be_.--[MS. erased.]

[63] [Compare--

"Son of the Morning, rise! approach you here!"

_Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza iii. line 1.]

[cm]
_Why is not this Thermopylae_;
_These waters blue that round you lave_
_Degenerate offspring of the free_--
_How name ye them what shore is this?_
_The wave, the rock of Salamis?_--[MS.]

[cn] {92}
_And he who in the cause expires_,
_Will add a name and fate to them_
_Well worthy of his noble stem_.--[MS.]

[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 of the Kislar Aga [kizlar-aghasi] (the slave
of the Seraglio and guardian of the women), who appoints the Waywode. A
pander and eunuch--these are not polite, yet true appellations--now
_governs_ the _governor_ of Athens!

[Hobhouse maintains that this subordination of the waiwodes (or vaivodes
= the Sclavic [Greek: boebo/da]) (Turkish governors of Athens) to a
higher Turkish official, was on the whole favourable to the liberties
and well-being of the Athenians.--_Travels in Albania_, 1858, i. 246.]

[cs]
_Now to the neighbouring shores they waft_
_Their ancient and proverbial craft_.--[MS. erased.]

[ct] {94} _he silent slants the doubtful creek_.--[MS]

[65] [The reciter of the tale is a Turkish fisherman, who has been
employed during the day in the gulf of AEgina, and in the evening,
apprehensive of the Mainote pirates who infest the coast of Attica,
lands with his boat on the harbour of Port Leone, the ancient Piraeus. He
becomes the eye-witness of nearly all the incidents in the story, and in
one of