k of the past_--[MS.]

[y]

_In the Desert there still are sweet waters,_
_In the wild waste a sheltering tree._--[MS.]

[81] [Byron often made use of this illustration. Compare--

"My Peri! ever welcome here!
Sweet, as the desert fountain's wave."

_The Bride of Abydos_, Canto I. lines 151, 152,
_Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 163.]

[82] [For Hobhouse's parody of these stanzas, see _Letters_, 1900, iv.
73,74.]

[83] {57}[These stanzas--"than which," says the _Quarterly Review_ for
January, 1831, "there is nothing, perhaps, more mournfully and
desolately beautiful in the whole range of Lord Byron's poetry," were
also written at Diodati, and sent home to be published, if Mrs. Leigh
should consent. She decided against publication, and the "Epistle" was
not printed till 1830. Her first impulse was to withhold her consent to
the publication of the "Stanzas to Augusta," as well as the "Epistle,"
and to say, "Whatever is addressed to me do not publish," but on second
thoughts she decided that "the _least objectionable_ line will be _to
let them be published_."--See her letters to Murray, November 1, 8,
1816, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 366, note 1.]

[z]

_Go where thou wilt thou art to me the same_--
_A loud regret which I would not resign_.--[MS.]

[84] [Compare--

"Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place,
With one fair Spirit for my minister!"

_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza clxxvii. lines 1, 2,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 456.]

[aa] _But other cares_----.--[MS.]

[ab] _A strange doom hath been ours, but that is past_.--[MS.]

[85] ["Admiral Byron was remarkable for never making a voyage without a
tempest. He was known to the sailors by the facetious name of
'Foul-weather Jack' [or 'Hardy Byron'].

"'But, though it were tempest-toss'd,
Still his bark could not be lost.'

He returned safely from the wreck of the _Wager_ (in Anson's voyage),
and many years after circumnavigated the world, as commander of a
similar expedition" (Moore). Admiral the Hon. John Byron (1723-1786),
next brother to William, fifth Lord Byron, published his _Narrative_ of
his shipwreck in the _Wager_ in 1768, and his _Voyage round the World_
in the _Dolphin_, in 1767 (_Letters_, 1898, i. 3).]

[ac] {58}

_I am not yet o'erwhelmed that I shall ev