_Fugitive Pieces_ had been privately printed, with the addition of twelve poems, and with two poems omitted, as _Poems on Various Occasions_ in January, 1807, and in the summer of the same year a new collection, consisting partly of selections from the two previous volumes and partly of hitherto unprinted work, was published under the title _Hours of Idleness_. A final edition, called _Poems Original and Translated_, appeared in 1808, comprising thirty-eight separate poems, five of them new. Among the poems in these volumes, and other verses of the same period, drawn from various sources and since gathered together in Mr. Coleridge’s authoritative edition of Byron’s poetry, there are several satires, many of them interesting in themselves and nearly all illuminating in their relation to the author’s later production. _Childish Recollections_ (1806),[54] a sentimental reverie, is satiric in part, though it is devoted mostly to eulogies of Byron’s companions at Harrow. In the couplet, “Let keener bards delight in Satire’s sting, My fancy soars not on Detraction’s wing,” he disavows any satiric intent, but this does not prevent him from indulging in some additional criticism of Dr. Butler. Regret for this passage induced Byron to omit the entire poem from _Poems Original and Translated_, and in ordering the excision he wrote Ridge: “As I am now reconciled to Dr. Butler I cannot allow my satire to appear against him.” _Damoetas_, a short fragment of truculent characterization, may be a morbid bit of self-portraiture, but is more probably a cynical sketch of some acquaintance. The description is excessively bitter:-- “From every sense of shame and virtue wean’d, In lies an adept, in deceit a fiend;-- Damoetas ran through all the maze of sin, And found the goal, when others just begin.”