on to say that he did not recover the
effect of the sandblast on his chest for nearly two years (Brace's _Life
and Travels_, ed. 1830, p. 470).--Note to Edition 1832.]

[dd] There are two MS. versions of lines 290-298: (A) a rough copy, and
(B) a fair copy--

(A) _And wide the Spider's thin grey pall_
_Is curtained on the splendid wall_--
_The Bat hath built in his mother's bower_,
_And in the fortress of his power_
_The Owl hath fixed her beacon tower_,
_The wild dogs howl on the fountain's brim_
_With baffled thirst and famine grim_,
_For the stream is shrunk from its marble bed_
_Where Desolation's dust is spread_.--[MS.]

B. ["August 5, 1813, in last of 3rd or first of 4th ed."]
_The lonely Spider's thin grey pall_
_Is curtained o'er the splendid wall_--
_The Bat builds in his mother's bower;_
_And in the fortress of his power_
_The Owl hath fixed her beacon-tower_,
_The wild dog howls o'er the fountain's brink_,
_But vainly lolls his tongue to drink_.--[MS.]

[74] {100} [Compare "The walls of Balclutha were desolated.... The
stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls.
The fox looked out from the windows" (Ossian's _Balclutha_). "The dreary
night-owl screams in the solitary retreat of his mouldering ivy-covered
tower" (_Larnul, or the Song of Despair: Poems of Ossian_, discovered by
the Baron de Harold, 1787, p. 172). Compare, too, the well-known lines,
"The spider holds the veil in the palace of Caesar; the owl stands
sentinel on the watch-tower of Afrasyab" (_A Grammar of the Persian
Language_, by Sir W. Jones, 1809, p. 106).]

[de]
_The silver dew of coldness sprinkling_
_In drops fantastically twinkling_
_As from the spring the silver dew_
_In whirls fantastically flew_
_And dashed luxurions coolness round_
_The air--and verdure on the ground_.--[MS.]

[df] {101}
_For thirsty Fox and Jackal gaunt_
_May vainly for its waters pant_.--[MS.]
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] ["I have just recollected an alteration you may make in the
proof.... Among the lines on