Equivocations, and the thoughts which dwell In Janus-spirits--the significant eye Which learns to lie with silence--the pretext[97] Of prudence, with advantages annexed-- The acquiescence in all things which tend, No matter how, to the desired end-- All found a place in thy philosophy. The means were worthy, and the end is won-- I would not do by thee as thou hast done! _September, 1816._ [First published, _New Monthly Magazine_, August, 1832, vol. xxxv. pp. 142, 143.] FOOTNOTES: [35] {33}[Compare-- "Come, blessed barrier between day and day." [36] [Compare-- "...the night's dismay Saddened and stunned the coming day." _The Pains of Sleep_, lines 33, 34, by S. T. Coleridge, _Poetical Works_, 1893, p. 170.] [37] {34}[Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza vi. lines 1-4, note, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 219.] [38] [Compare-- "With us acts are exempt from time, and we Can crowd eternity into an hour." _Cain_, act i. sc. 1] [i] {35} ----_she was his sight,_ _For never did he turn his glance until_ _Her own had led by gazing on an object._--[MS.] [39] {35}[Compare-- "Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me." _To Anthea, etc._, by Robert Herrick.] [40] [Compare-- "...the river of your love, Must in the ocean of your affection To me, be swallowed up." Massinger's _Unnatural Combat_, act iii. sc. 4.] [41] [Compare-- "The hot blood ebbed and flowed again." _Parisina_, line 226, _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 515.] [42] ["Annesley Lordship is owned by Miss Chaworth, a minor heiress of the Chaworth family."--Throsby's _Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire_, 1797, ii. 270.] [43] ["Moore, commenting on this (_Life_, p. 28), tells us that the image of the lover's steed was suggested by the Nottingham race-ground ... nine miles off, and ... lying in a hollow, and totally hidden from view.... Mary Chaworth, in fact, was looking for her lover's steed along the road as it winds up the common from Hucknall."-"A Byronian Ramble," _Athenæum_, No. 357, August 30, 1834.] [44] {36}[Moore (_Life_, p. 28) regards "the antique oratory," as a poetical equivalent for Annesley Hall; but _vide ante_, the Introduction to _The Dream_, p. 31.] [45] [Compare-- "Love by the object loved is soon discerned." _Story of Rimini_, by Leigh Hunt, Canto III. ed. 1844, p. 22. The line does not occur in the first edition, published early in 1816, or, presumably, in the MS. read by Byron in the preceding year. (See Letter to Murray, November 4, 1815.)]