[oq] {428} 'tis not that now And if my voice break forth--{-it is not that-} I shrink from what is suffered--let him speak decline upon my Who {-humbler in-} {-What-} hath beheld {-me quiver on my-} brow seen my mind's convulsion leave it {-blenched or-} weak? Or {-my internal spirit changed or weak-} {-found my mind convulsed-} a But in this page {-the-} record {-which-} I seek will {-from out of the deep-} {-stands and-} {-of that remorse-} {-Shall stand and when that hour shall come and come-} {-Shall come--though I be ashes--and shall pile heap-} {-It will-} {-come and wreak-} {-In fire the measure-} {-The fiery prophecy-} {-The fullness of my-} {-The fullness of my prophecy or heap-} {-The mountain of my curse-} Not in the air shall these my words disperse {-'Tis written that an hour of deep remorse-} Though I be ashes {-a deep-} far hour shall wreak {-The fullness Thee-} this The deep prophetic fullness of {-my-} verse And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse.--[MS. M.] [or] {429} If to forgive be "heaping coals of Fire" As God hath spoken--on the heads of foes Mine should lie a Volcano-and rise higher Than o'er the Titans crushed Olympus rose Than Athos soars, or blazing Ætna glows: True--they who stung were petty things--but what Than serpent's sting produce more deadly throes. The Lion may be tortured by the Gnat-- Who sucks the slumberer's blood--the Eagle? no, the Bat.[§]-- [MS. M.] [§] [The "Bat" was "a sobriquet by which Lady Caroline Lamb was well known in London society." An Italian translation of her novel, _Glenarvon_, was at this time in the press at Venice (see letter to Murray, August 7, 1817), and it is probable that Byron, who declined to interdict its publication, took his revenge in a petulant stanza, which, on second thoughts, he decided to omit. (See note by Mr. Richard Edgcumbe, _Notes and Queries_ eighth series, 1895, viii. 101.)] [510] [Compare "Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was ill," lines 53-55.]