[46] {37}[Byron once again revisited Annesley Hall in the autumn of 1808 (see his lines, "Well, thou art happy," and "To a Lady," etc., _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 277, 282, note 1); but it is possible that he avoided the "massy gate" ("arched over and surmounted by a clock and cupola") of set purpose, and entered by another way. He would not lightly or gladly have taken a liberty with the actual prosaic facts in a matter which so nearly concerned his personal emotions (_vide ante_, the Introduction to _The Dream_, p. 31).] [47] ["This is true _keeping_--an Eastern picture perfect in its foreground, and distance, and sky, and no part of which is so dwelt upon or laboured as to obscure the principal figure."--Sir Walter Scott, _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. "Byron's Dream" is the subject of a well-known picture by Sir Charles Eastlake.] [48] {38}[Compare-- "Then Cythna turned to me and from her eyes Which swam with unshed tears," etc. Shelly's _Revolt of Islam_ ("Laon and Cythna"), Canto XII. stanza xxii. lines 2, 3, _Poetical Works_, 1829, p. 48.] [49] [An old servant of the Chaworth family, Mary Marsden, told Washington Irving (_Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey_, 1835, p. 204) that Byron used to call Mary Chaworth "his bright morning star of Annesley." Compare the well-known lines-- "She was a form of Life and Light, That, seen, became a part of sight; And rose, where'er I turned mine eye, The Morning-star of Memory!" _The Giaour_, lines 1127-1130, _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 136, 137.] [50] ["This touching picture agrees closely, in many of its circumstances, with Lord Byron's own prose account of the wedding in his Memoranda; in which he describes himself as waking, on the morning of his marriage, with the most melancholy reflections, on seeing his wedding-suit spread out before him. In the same mood, he wandered about the grounds alone, till he was summoned for the ceremony, and joined, for the first time on that day, his bride and her family. He knelt down--he repeated the words after the clergyman; but a mist was before his eyes--his thoughts were elsewhere: and he was but awakened by the congratulations of the bystanders to find that he was--married."--_Life_, p. 272.