--.--[MS.]

[ia] {242} _Feeds on itself and all things_----.--[MS.]

[ib]
_Which stir too deeply_----[MS.]
_Which stir the blood too boiling in its springs_.--[MS. erased.]

[ic] {243} ----_they rave overcast_.--[MS.]

[id] ----_the hate of all below_.--[MS.]

[ie] ----_on his single head_.--[MS.]

[if] ----_the wise man's World will be_.--[MS.]

[ig] ----_for what teems like thee_.--[MS.]

[ih] {244} _From gray and ghastly walls--where Ruin kindly
dwells_.--[MS.]

[300] [For the archaic use of "battles" for "battalions," compare
_Macbeth_, act v. sc. 4, line 4; and Scott's _Lord of the Isles_,
vi. 10--

"In battles four beneath their eye,
The forces of King Robert lie."]

[ii] ----_are shredless tatters now_.--[MS.]

[ij] {245}
_What want these outlaws that a king should have_
_But History's vain page_----.--[MS.]

[ik] ----_their hearts were far more brave_.--[MS.]

[301] [The most usual device is a bleeding heart.]

[il]
_Nor mar it frequent with an impious show_
_Of arms or angry conflict_----.--[MS.]

[302] {246} [Compare Moore's lines, _The Meeting of the Waters_--

"There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the wide waters meet."]

[im]
_Earth's dreams of Heaven--and such to seem to me_
_But one thing wants thy stream_----.--[MS.]

[303] [Compare Lucan's _Pharsalia_, ix. 969, "Etiam periere ruinae;" and
the lines from Tasso's _Gerusalemme Liberata_, xv. 20, quoted in
illustration of Canto II. stanza liii.]

[in]
_Glassed with its wonted light, the sunny ray;_
_But o'er the mind's marred thoughts--though but a dream_.--[MS.]

[io] {247} _Repose itself on kindness_----[MS.]

[304] [Two lyrics, entitled _Stanzas to Augusta_, and the _Epistle to
Augusta_, which were included in _Domestic Pieces_, published in 1816,
are dedicated to the same subject--the devotion and faithfulness of his
sister.]

[ip] {248} _But there was one_----.--[MS.]

[iq] _Yet was it pure_----.--[MS.]

[305] [It has been supposed that there is a reference in this passage,
and again in _Stanzas to Augusta_ (dated July 24, 1816), to "the only
important calumny"--to quote Shelley's letter of September 29,
1816--"that was even ever advanced" against Byron. "The poems to
Augusta," remarks Elze (_Life of Lord Byron_, p. 174), "prove, further,
that she too was cognizant of the calumnious accusations; for under no
other suppo