/ _sadly_ \ or, _As flashed the volumed blaze, and_ { } _shone_ \ _ghastly_ / _The skies with lightnings awful as their own._-- [_Letter to Lord Holland, Sept_. 25, 1812.] or, _As glared each rising flash, and ghastly shone_ _The skies with lightnings awful as their own_.-- [_Letter to Lord Holland, Sept_. 27, 1812.] [bo] {52} / lava of the \ _Till slowly ebbed the_ { } _wave_. \ _spent volcanic_ / / the burning \ or, _Till ebb'd the lava of_ { } _wave_, \ _that molten_ / _And blackening ashes mark'd the Muse's grave_.-- [_Letter to Lord Holland, Sept_. 28, 1812] [bp] _That scorns the scythe of Time, the torch of Flame_.--[Letter to Lord Holland, Sept, 28, 1812.] [bq] {53} _Far be from him that hour which asks in vain_ _Tears such as flow for Garrick in his strain;_ or, _Far be that hour that vainly asks in turn_ / crowned his \ _Sad verse for him as_ { } _Garrick's urn_.-- \ _wept o'er_ / [_Letter to Lord Holland, Sept_. 30, 1812.] [41] [Originally, "Ere Garrick _died_," etc. "By the by, one of my corrections in the fair copy sent yesterday has dived into the bathos some sixty fathom-- 'When Garrick died, and Brinsley ceased to write.' Ceasing to _live_ is a much more serious concern, and ought not to be first; therefore I will let the old couplet stand, with its half rhymes 'sought' and 'wrote' [_vide supra, variant_ ii.] Second thoughts in every thing are best, but, in rhyme, third and fourth don't come amiss.... I always scrawl in this way, and smooth as much as I can, but never sufficiently."--Letter to Lord Holland, September 26, 1812, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 150.] [br] _Such are the names that here your plaudits sought,_ _When Garrick acted, and when Brinsley wrote_.--[MS.] [42] {54} [The following lines were omitted by the Committee:--