[280] [Mr. Alexander Dyce points out the resemblance between these lines and a passage in one of Pope's letters to Steele (July 15, 1712, _Works_, 1754, viii. 226): "The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green."] [kh] {349} _When Ezzelin_----.--[Ed. 1831.] [ki] _Here in thy hall_----.--[MS.] [281] {351} [Compare _Mysteries of Udolpho_, by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, 1794, ii. 279: "The Count then fell back into the arms of his servants, while Montoni held his sword over him and bade him ask his life ... his complexion changed almost to blackness as he looked upon his fallen adversary."] [kj] _And turned to smite a foe already felled_.--[MS.] [kk] _And he less calm--yet calmer than them all_.--[MS.] [kl] {353} ----_the blind and headlong rage_.--[MS.] [km] {354} _The first impressions with his milder sway_ _Of dread_----.--[MS.] [kn] _Mysterious gloom around his hall and state_.--[MS.] [ko] {355} _The Beauty--which the first success would snatch_.--[MS.] [kp] {356} _A word's enough to rouse mankind to kill_ _Some factions phrase by cunning raised and spread_.--[MS.] [kq] {357} ----_upon the battle slain_.--[Ed. 1831.] [kr] {358} _But not endure the long protracted strife_.--[MS. erased.] [ks] {360} _And raged the combat till_----.--[MS.] [282] {361} [Stanza XV. was added after the completion of the first draft of the poem.] [283] [Compare-- "Il s'excite, il s'empresse, il inspire aux soldats Cet espoir généreux que lui-même il n'a pas." Voltaire, _Henriade_, Chant. viii. lines 127, 128, _Oeuvres Complêtes_, Paris, 1837, ii. 325.] [kt] {362} _The stiffening steed is on the dinted earth_.--[MS.] [284] [Compare-- "There lay a horse, another through the field Ran masterless." Tasso's _Jerusalem_ (translated by Edward Fairfax), Bk. VII. stanza cvi. lines 3, 4.] [ku] ----_that glassy river lie_.--[MS.] [285] {364} [Stanza xix. was added after the completion of the poem. The MS. is extant.] [kv] ----_white lips spoke_.--[MS.] [kw] ----_pale--and passionless_.--[MS.] [kx] {365} _That Life--immortal--infinite secure_ _To All for whom that Cross hath made it sure_.-- [MS. First ed. 1814.] or, _That life immortal, infinite and sure_ _To all whose faith the eternal boon secure_.--[MS.] [ky] _But faint the dying Lara's accents grew_.--[MS.] [kz] _He gazed as doubtful that the thing he saw_ _Had something more to ask from Lone or awe_.--[MS.] [la] {367} _But all unknown the blood he lost or spilt_ _These only told his Glory or his Guilt_.--[MS.]