Forty-third--"Awake the silent dust" was corrected to "provoke the silent dust." Forty-seventh--The correction of "Reins of Empire" to "Rod of Empire" first appears in the margin of the Pembroke manuscript. Fifty-seventh--In the Fraser manuscript it reads-- "Some village Cato, who with dauntless breast, Some mute, inglorious Tully here may rest; Some Cæsar," etc. In the Pembroke manuscript, these classical personages have disappeared, and the great improvement was made of substituting Hampden, Milton, and Cromwell, and thus maintaining the English coloring of the poem. Fifty-first--This verse, beginning, "But Knowledge," etc., was placed, in the Fraser manuscript, after the one beginning, "Some village Cato," but with a note in the margin to transfer it to where it now stands. The third line of the stanza was first written, "Chill Penury had damped." This was first corrected to "depressed," and afterward to "repressed." Fifty-fifth--"Their fate forbade," changed to "Their lot forbade." Sixty-sixth--"Their struggling virtues" was improved to "Their growing virtues." Seventy-first--"Crown the shrine" was altered to "heap the shrine," and in the next line "Incense hallowed by the muse's flame" was wisely changed to "Incense kindled by the muse's flame." After the seventy-second line stand, in the Fraser manuscript, the following stanzas, which Gray, with admirable taste, afterward omitted. But, before he decided to leave them out altogether, he drew a black line down the margin, indicating that he would transfer them to another place. These stanzas were originally intended to close the poem. Afterward the thought occurred to him of "the hoary-headed swain" and the "Epitaph." "The thoughtless World to Majesty may bow, Exalt the Brave and idolize Success, But more to Innocence their safety owe Than Power and Genius e'er conspire to bless. "And thou, who, mindful of the unhonored Dead, Dost, in these Notes, their artless Tale relate, By Night and lonely Contemplation led To linger in the gloomy Walks of Fate; "Hark, how the sacred Calm that broods around Bids every fierce, tumultuous Passion cease, In still, small Accents whispering from the Ground A grateful Earnest of eternal Peace. "No more with Reason and thyself at Strife, Give anxious Cares and useless Wishes room; But through the cool, sequestered Vale of Life Pursue the silent Tenor of thy Doom." After these stanzas, according to the Fraser manuscript, were to follow these lines, which I do not remember to have seen elsewhere:-- "If chance that e'er some pensive Spirit more, By sympathetic Musings here delayed, With vain though kind Enquiry shall explore Thy once-loved Haunt, thy long-neglected Shade, "Haply," etc. But Gray soon dispensed with this feeble stanza, and made a new one by changing it into the one beginning:-- "For thee, who mindful."