{A} [It is probable that Byron, who did not trouble himself to distinguish between "lie" and "lay," and who, as the MS. of _English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_ (see line 732, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 355) reveals, pronounced "petit maître" _anglicé_ in four syllables, regarded "dome" (_vide supra_) as a true and exact rhyme to "tomb," but, with his wonted compliance, was persuaded to make yet another alteration.] ] [gr] {196} Of lines 886-889, two, if not three, variants were sent to the publisher-- (1) _Dear as the Melody of better days_ _That steals the trembling tear of speechless praise_-- _Sweet as his native song to Exile's ears_ _Shall sound each tone thy long-loved voice endears_.-- [December 2, 1813.] (2) /_Dear_\ /_better_ \ { } _as the melody of_ { } _days_ \_Soft_/ \_youthful_/ / _a silent_ \ _That steals_ { } _tear of speechless praise_-- \_the trembling_/ [178] {197} "Jannat-al-Aden," the perpetual abode, the Mussulman paradise. [See Sale's _Koran_, "Preliminary Discourse," sect. i.; and _Journal_, November 17, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 326.] [gs] _Wait on thy voice and bow at thy command_.--[MS.] [gt] _Oh turn and mingle every thought with his,_ _And all our future days unite in this_.--[MS.] [179] ["You wanted some reflections, and I send you _per Selim_, eighteen lines in decent couplets, of a pensive, if not an _ethical_ tendency.... Mr. Canning's approbation (_if_ he did approve) I need not say makes me proud."--Letter to Murray, November 23, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 286.] [gu] _Man I may lead but trust not--I may fall_ _By those now friends to me, yet foes to all_-- _In this they follow but the bent assigned_, _By fatal Nature to our warring kind_.--[MS.] [gv] {198} _Behold a wilderness and call it peace_,--[MS. erased.] _Look round our earth and lo! where battles cease_, _"Behold a Solitude and call it" peace_.--[MS.] or, _Mark even where Conquest's deeds of carnage cease_ _She leaves a solitude and calls it peace_.--[November 21, 1813]. [For the final alteration to the present text, see letter to Murray of November 24, 1813.] [180] [Compare Tacitus, _Agricola_, cap. 30-- "Solitudinem faciun--pacem appellant." See letter to Murray, November 24, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 287.] [gw] _Power sways but by distrust--her sole source_.--[MS. erased.] [gx] _Which Love to-night hath lent by swelling sail_.--[MS.] [181] {199} [Compare-- "Quam juvat immites ventos audire cubantem, Et dominam tenero detinuisse sinu." Tibullus, _Eleg_., Lib. I. i. 45, 46.] [gy] _Then if my lip once murmurs, it must be_.--[MS.]