For the illumination of the mosques during the fast of the Ramazân, see _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza lv. line 5, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 134, note 2. [cy] {97} _Of transient Anger's Darkening blush_.--[MS.] [69] [For "hasty," all the editions till the twelfth read "_darkening_ blush." On the back of a copy of the eleventh, Lord Byron has written, "Why did not the printer attend to the solitary correction so repeatedly made? I have no copy of this, and desire to have none till my request is complied with." _Notes to Editions_ 1832, 1837.] [cz] _As doubting if to stay or fly_-- _Then turned it swiftly to his blade;_ _As loud his raven charger neighed_-- _That sound dispelled his waking dream_, _As sleepers start at owlet's scream_.--[MS.] [70] Jerreed, or Djerrid [Jarid], a blunted Turkish javelin, which is darted from horseback with great force and precision. It is a favourite exercise of the Mussulmans; but I know not if it can be called a _manly_ one, since the most expert in the art are the Black Eunuchs of Constantinople. I think, next to these, a Mamlouk at Smyrna was the most skilful that came within my observation. [Lines 250, 251, together with the note, were inserted in the Third Edition.] [da] {98} _'Twas but an instant, though so long_ _When thus dilated in my song_. _'Twas but an instant_----.--[MS.] [db] _Such moment holds a thousand years_. or, _Such moment proves the grief of years_.--[MS.] [71] ["Lord Byron told Mr. Murray that he took this idea from one of the Arabian tales--that in which the Sultan puts his head into a butt of water, and, though it remains there for only two or three minutes, he imagines that he lives many years during that time. The story had been quoted by Addison in the _Spectator_" [No. 94, June 18, 1711].--_Memoir of John Murray_, 1891, i. 219, note.] [72] [Lines 271-276 were added in the Third Edition. The MS. proceeds with a direction (dated July 31, 1813) to the printer--"And alter 'A life of _woe_--an age of crime--' to 'A life of _pain_--an age of crime.' Alter also the lines 'On him who loves or hates or fears Such moment holds a thousand years,' to 'O'er him who loves or hates or fears Such moment pours the grief of years.'"] [dc] {99} _But neither fled nor fell alone_.--[MS.] [73] The blast of the desert, fatal to everything living, and often alluded to in Eastern poetry.