[83] {57}[These stanzas--"than which," says the _Quarterly Review_ for January, 1831, "there is nothing, perhaps, more mournfully and desolately beautiful in the whole range of Lord Byron's poetry," were also written at Diodati, and sent home to be published, if Mrs. Leigh should consent. She decided against publication, and the "Epistle" was not printed till 1830. Her first impulse was to withhold her consent to the publication of the "Stanzas to Augusta," as well as the "Epistle," and to say, "Whatever is addressed to me do not publish," but on second thoughts she decided that "the _least objectionable_ line will be _to let them be published_."--See her letters to Murray, November 1, 8, 1816, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 366, note 1.] [z] _Go where thou wilt thou art to me the same_-- _A loud regret which I would not resign_.--[MS.] [84] [Compare-- "Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister!" _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza clxxvii. lines 1, 2, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 456.] [aa] _But other cares_----.--[MS.] [ab] _A strange doom hath been ours, but that is past_.--[MS.] [85] ["Admiral Byron was remarkable for never making a voyage without a tempest. He was known to the sailors by the facetious name of 'Foul-weather Jack' [or 'Hardy Byron']. "'But, though it were tempest-toss'd, Still his bark could not be lost.' He returned safely from the wreck of the _Wager_ (in Anson's voyage), and many years after circumnavigated the world, as commander of a similar expedition" (Moore). Admiral the Hon. John Byron (1723-1786), next brother to William, fifth Lord Byron, published his _Narrative_ of his shipwreck in the _Wager_ in 1768, and his _Voyage round the World_ in the _Dolphin_, in 1767 (_Letters_, 1898, i. 3).] [ac] {58} _I am not yet o'erwhelmed that I shall ever lean_ _A thought upon such Hope as daily mocks_.--[MS. erased.] [86] [For Byron's belief in predestination, compare _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza lxxxiii. line 9, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 74, note 1.] [ad] {59}_For to all such may change of soul refer_.--[MS.] [ae] _Have hardened me to this--but I can see_ _Things which I still can love--but none like thee_.--[MS. erased.] [af] {_Before I had to study far more useless books_.--[MS. erased,] {_Ere my young mind was fettered down to books_. [ag] _Some living things_-----.--[MS.] [87] [Compare-- "Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, when we are _least_ alone." _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xc. lines 1, 2, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 272] [88] {60}[For a description of the lake at Newstead, see _Don Juan_, Canto XIII. stanza lvii.] [ah] _And think of such things with a childish eye._--[MS.] [89] {61}[Compare--