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themselves affected. [99] [Compare "As with a thousand waves to the rocks, so Swaran's host came on."--_Fingal_, bk. i., Ossian's _Works_, 1807, i. 19.] [dp] {116} _That neither gives nor asks for life_.--[MS.] [100] {117} The flowered shawls generally worn by persons of rank. [101] [Compare "Catilina vero longe a suis, inter hostium cadavera repertus est, paululum etiam spirans ferociamque animi, quam habuerat vivus, in vultu retinens."--_Catilina_, cap. 61, _Opera_, 1820, i. 124.] [dq] {118} _His mother looked from the lattice high_, _With throbbing heart and eager eye;_ _The browsing camel bells are tinkling_, _And the last beam of twilight twinkling:_ _'Tis eve; his train should now be nigh_. _She could not rest in her garden bower_, _And gazed through the loop of her steepest tower_. _"Why comes he not? his steeds are fleet_, _And well are they train'd to the summer's heat_."--[MS.] Another copy began-- _The browsing camel bells are tinkling_, _And the first beam of evening twinkling;_ _His mother looked from her lattice high_, _With throbbing breast and eager eye_-- "'_Tis twilight--sure his train is nigh_."--[MS. Aug. 11, 1813.] _The browsing camel's bells are tinkling_ _The dews of eve the pasture sprinkling_ _And rising planets feebly twinkling:_ _His mother looked from the lattice high_ _With throbbing heart and eager eye_.--[Fourth Edition.] [These lines were erased, and lines 689-692 were substituted. They appeared first in the Fifth Edition.] [102] ["The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariot?"--Judges v. 28.] [dr] {119} _And now his courser's pace amends_.--[MS. erased.] [ds] _I could not deem my son was slow_.--[MS. erased.] [dt] _The Tartar sped beneath the gate_ _And flung to earth his fainting weight_.--[MS.] [103] The calpac is the solid cap or centre part of the head-dress; the shawl is wound round it, and forms the turban. [104] The turban, pillar, and inscriptive verse, decorate the tombs of the Osmanlies, whether in the cemetery or the wilderness. In the mountains you frequently pass similar mementos; and on inquiry you are informed that they record some victim of rebellion, plunder, or revenge. [The following is a "Koran verse:" "Every one that is upon it (the
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