[jn] {334} _Opinion various as his varying eye_ _In praise or railing--never passed him by_.--[MS.] [jo] {335} ----_gayest of the gay_.--[MS.] [274] [The MS. omits lines 313-382. Stanza xviii. is written on a loose sheet belonging to the Murray MSS.; stanza xix. on a sheet inserted in the MS. Both stanzas must have been composed after the first draft of the poem was completed.] [jp] ----_an inward scorn of all_.--[MS.] [275] {336} [Compare Coleridge's _Lines to a Gentleman_ [William Wordsworth] (written in 1807, but not published till 1817), lines 69, 70-- "Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain, And genius given, and knowledge won in vain."] [jq] _And left Reflection: loth himself to blame,_ _He called on Nature's self to share the shame_.--[MS.] [jr] _And half mistook for fate his wayward will_.--[MS.] [276] [For Byron's belief or half-persuasion that he was predestined to evil, compare _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza lxxxiii. lines 8, 9, and note. Compare, too, Canto III. stanza lxx. lines 8 and 9; and Canto IV. stanza xxxiv. line 6: _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii, 74, 260, 354.] [js] {337} ----_around another's mind;_ _There he was fixed_----.--[MS.] [jt] {338} _That friendship, interest, aversion knew_ _But there within your inmost_----.--[MS.] [ju] _Yes you might hate abhor, but from the breast_ _He wrung an all unwilling interest_-- _Vain was the struggle, in that sightless net_.--[MS.] [jv] _So springs the exulting spirit_--.--[MS.] [jw] {339} _That question thus repeated--Thrice and high_.--[MS.] [jx] {340} _Art thou not he who_----" "_Whatso'eer I be._--[MS.] [jy] {342} _"Tomorrow!--aye--tomorrow" these were all_ _The words from Lara's answering lip that fall_.--[MS.] [jz] {343} _That brought their native echoes to his ear_.--[MS.] [ka] _From high and quickened into life and thought_.--[MS.] [kb] {344} _Though no reluctance checked his willing hand,_ _He still obeyed as others would command_.--[MS.] [kc] _To tune his lute and, if none else were there,_ _To fill the cup in which himself might share_.--[MS.] [kd] {345} _Yet still existed there though still supprest_.--[ms] [ke] _And when the slaves and pages round him told_.--[ms] [277] {346} [Compare-- "Strange things I have in head, that will to hand, Which must be acted, ere they may be scanned." _Macbeth_, act iii. sc. 4, lines 139, 140.] [kf] {347} _There lie the lover's hope--the watcher's toil_.--[MS.] [kg] _And half-Existence melts within a grave_.--[MS.] [278] {348} [Compare-- "Now slowly melting into day, Vapour and mist dissolved away." Sotheby's _Constance de Castile_, Canto III. stanza v. lines 17, 18.] [279] [Compare the last lines of Pippa's song in Browning's _Pippa Passes_--"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world!"]