[hq] _Behold his soul once seen not soon forgot!_ _All that there burns its hour away--but sears_ _The scathed Remembrance of long coming years_.--[MS.] [202] {237} [Lines 277-280 are not in the MS. They were inserted on a detached printed sheet, with a view to publication in the Seventh Edition.] [hr] {238} _Not Guilt itself could quench this earliest one_.--[MS. erased.] [hs] {239} _Now to Francesca_.--[MS.] _Now to Ginevra_.--[Revise of January 6, 1814.] _Now to Medora_.--[Revise of January 15, 1814.] [ht] _Yet heed my prayer--my latest accents hear_.--[MS.] [203] [Compare-- "He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend." Gray's _Elegy in a Country Churchyard._] [204] {243} [For Bireno's desertion of Olympia, see] _Orlando Funoso_, Canto X. [stanzas 1-27]. [hu] {244} _Oh! he could bear no more--but madly grasped_ _Her form--and trembling there his own unclasped_.--[MS.] [205] {247} By night, particularly in a warm latitude, every stroke of the oar, every motion of the boat or ship, is followed by a slight flash like sheet lightning from the water. [206] {248} [Cape Gallo is at least eight miles to the south of Corone; but Point Lividia, the promontory on which part of the town is built, can hardly be described as a "jutting cape," or as (see line 1623) a "giant shape."] [207] {249} [Coron, or Corone, the ancient Colonides, is situated a little to the north of a promontory, Point Lividia, on the western shore of the Gulf of Kalamata, or Coron, or Messenia. Antoine Louis Castellan (1772-1838), with whose larger work on Turkey Byron professed himself familiar (Letter to Moore, August 28, 1813), gives a vivid description of Coron and the bey's palace in his _Lettres sur la Morée, etc_. (first published, Paris, 1808), 3 vols., 1820. Whether Byron had or had not consulted the "Letters," the following passages may help to illustrate the scene:-- "La châine caverneuse du Taygete s'élève en face de Coron, à l'autre extrémité du golfe" (iii. 181). "Nous avons aussi été faire une visite au bey, qui nous a permis de parcourir la citadelle" (p. 187). "Le bey fait a exécuter en notre présence une danse singuliére, qu'on peut nommer danse pantomime" (p. 189; see line 642). "La maison est assez bien distribuée et proprement meublée à la manière des Turcs. La principale pièce est grande, ornée d'une boisserie ciselée sur les dessins arabesques, et même marquetée. Les fenêtres donnent sur le jardin ... les volets sont ordinairement fermés, dans le milieu de la journée, et le jour ne pénètre alors qu'a travers des ouvertures pratiquées, au dessus des fenêtres et garnis de vitraux colorés" (p. 200). Castellan saw the palace and bay illuminated (p. 203).] [208] {250} Coffee. [209] "Chibouque" [chibûk], pipe.