[8] [This "...is not exactly so; the third column does not seem to have ever had a ring, but the traces of these rings are very visible in the two first columns from the entrance, although the rings have been removed; and on the three last we find the rings still riveted on the darkest side of the pillars where they face the rock, so that the unfortunate prisoners chained there were even bereft of light.... The fifth column is said to be the one to which Bonivard was chained during four years. Byron's name is carved on the southern side of the third column ... on the seventh tympanum, at about 1 metre 45 from the lower edge of the shaft." Much has been written for and against the authenticity of this inscription, which, according to M. Naef, the author of _Guide_, was carved by Byron himself, "with an antique ivory-mounted stiletto, which had been discovered in the duke's room."--_Guide, etc._, pp. 39-42. The inscription was _in situ_ as early as August 22, 1820, as Mr. Richard Edgcumbe points out (_Notes and Queries_, Series V. xi. 487).] [d] {16}--_pined in heart_.--[Editions 1816-1837.] [9] [Compare, for similarity of sound-- "Thou tree of covert and of rest For this young Bird that is distrest." _Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle,_ by W. Wordsworth, _Works,_ 1889, p. 364. Compare, too-- "She came into the cave, but it was merely To see her bird reposing in his nest." _Don Juan,_ Canto II. stanza clxviii. lines 3, 4.] [10] {17}[Compare-- "Those polar summers, _all_ sun, and some ice." _Don Juan_, Canto XII. stanza lxxii. line 8.] [11] {18} [Ruskin (_Modern Painters_, Part IV. chap. i. sect. 9, "Touching the Grand Style," 1888, iii. 8, 9) criticizes these five lines 107-111, and points out that, alike in respect of accuracy and inaccuracy of detail, they fulfil the conditions of poetry in contradistinction to history. "Instead," he concludes, "of finding, as we expected, the poetry distinguished from the history by the omission of details, we find it consisting entirely in the addition of details; and instead of it being characterized by regard only of the invariable, we find its whole power to consist in the clear expression of what is singular and particular!"]