[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 ruinæ;" 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 supposition is it possible to understand their allusions." But the mere fact that Mrs. Leigh remained on terms of intimacy and affection with her brother, when he was under the ban of society, would expose her to slander and injurious comment, "peril dreaded most in female eyes;" whereas to other calumnies, if such there were, there could be no other reference but silence, or an ecstasy of wrath and indignation.] [ir] _Thus to that heart did his its thoughts in absence pour_.--[MS.] ----_its absent feelings pour_.--[MS. erased.] [306] {249} [Written on the Rhine bank, May 11, 1816.--MS. M.] [is] {251} _A sigh for Marceau_----.--[MS.]