[16] {20} The song Δεῦτε παῖδες, [Deu~te pai~des] etc., was written by Riga, who perished in the attempt to revolutionize Greece. This translation is as literal as the author could make it in verse. It is of the same measure as that of the original. [For the original, see _Poetical Works_, 1891, Appendix, p. 792. For Constantine Rhigas, see _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 199, note 2. Hobhouse (_Travels in Albania_, 1858, ii. 3) prints a version (Byron told Murray that it was "well enough," _Letters_, 1899, iii. 13) of Δεῦτε παῖδες, [Deu~te pai~des,] of his own composition. He explains in a footnote that the metre is "a mixed trochaic, except the chorus." "This song," he adds, "the chorus particularly, is sung to a tune very nearly the same as the Marseillois Hymn. Strangely enough, Lord Byron, in his translation, has entirely mistaken the metre." The first stanza runs as follows:-- "Greeks arise! the day of glory Comes at last your swords to claim. Let us all in future story Rival our forefathers' fame. Underfoot the yoke of tyrants Let us now indignant trample, Mindful of the great example, And avenge our country's shame."] [17] {21} Constantinople. "Ἑπτάλοφος [Heptalophos]." [18] {22} The song from which this is taken is a great favourite with the young girls of Athens of all classes. Their manner of singing it is by verses in rotation, the whole number present joining in the chorus. I have heard it frequently at our "χόροι" ["cho/roi"] in the winter of 1810-11. The air is plaintive and pretty. [o] {23} _Has bound my soul to thee_----[MS. M.] [p] _When wandering forth alone_----[MS. M.] [q] {24} _Oh! what can tongue or pen avail_ _Unless my heart could speak_.--[MS. M.] [19] [These lines, which are undoubtedly genuine, were published for the first time in the sixth edition of _Poems on his Domestic Circumstances_ (W. Hone, 1816). They were first included by Murray in the collected _Poetical Works_, in vol. xvii., 1832.] [20] ["The principal streets of the city of Valetta are flights of stairs."--_Gazetteer of the World_.] [21] {25} [Major-General Hildebrand Oakes (1754-1822) succeeded Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keates as "his Majesty's commissioner for the affairs of Malta," April 27, 1810. There was an outbreak of plague during his tenure of office (1810-13).--_Annual Register_, 1810, p. 320; _Dict. Nat. Biog._, art. "Oakes."] [22] ["Lord Byron ... was once _rather near_ fighting a duel--and that was with an officer of the staff of General Oakes at Malta" (1809).--_Westminster Review_, January, 1825, iii. 21 (by J. C. Hobhouse). (See, too, _Life_ (First Edition, 1830, 4to), i. 202, 222.)]