The Works of Lord Byron Volume III Part 58

_Marmion_, Canto III. stanza xv. lines 19-22.]

[272] [Compare--

"Sweetly shining on the eye, A rivulet gliding smoothly by; Which shows with what an easy tide The moments of the happy glide."

Dyer's _Country Walk_ (_Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green_, 1858, p. 221).]

[273] {331} ["He used, at first, though offered a bed at Annesley, to return every night to Newstead, to sleep; alleging as a reason that he was afraid of the family pictures of the Chaworths."--_Life_, p. 27.]

[jk] ----_knelt in painted prayer_.--[MS.]

[jl] _His aspect all that best becomes the grave_.--[MS.]

[jm] {333} ----_along the gallery crawl_.--[MS.]

[jn] {334} _Opinion various as his varying eye_ _In praise or railing--never pa.s.sed him by_.--[MS.]

[jo] {335} ----_gayest of the gay_.--[MS.]

[274] [The MS. omits lines 313-382. Stanza xviii. is written on a loose sheet belonging to the Murray MSS.; stanza xix. on a sheet inserted in the MS. Both stanzas must have been composed after the first draft of the poem was completed.]

[jp] ----_an inward scorn of all_.--[MS.]

[275] {336} [Compare Coleridge's _Lines to a Gentleman_ [William Wordsworth] (written in 1807, but not published till 1817), lines 69, 70--

"Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain, And genius given, and knowledge won in vain."]

[jq]

_And left Reflection: loth himself to blame,_ _He called on Nature's self to share the shame_.--[MS.]

[jr] _And half mistook for fate his wayward will_.--[MS.]

[276] [For Byron's belief or half-persuasion that he was predestined to evil, compare _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza lx.x.xiii. lines 8, 9, and note. Compare, too, Canto III. stanza lxx. lines 8 and 9; and Canto IV.

stanza x.x.xiv. line 6: _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii, 74, 260, 354.]

[js] {337} ----_around another's mind;_ _There he was fixed_----.--[MS.]

[jt] {338} _That friendship, interest, aversion knew_ _But there within your inmost_----.--[MS.]

[ju]

_Yes you might hate abhor, but from the breast_ _He wrung an all unwilling interest_-- _Vain was the struggle, in that sightless net_.--[MS.]

[jv] _So springs the exulting spirit_--.--[MS.]

[jw] {339} _That question thus repeated--Thrice and high_.--[MS.]

[jx] {340} _Art thou not he who_----"

"_Whatso'eer I be._--[MS.]

[jy] {342} _"Tomorrow!--aye--tomorrow" these were all_ _The words from Lara's answering lip that fall_.--[MS.]

[jz] {343} _That brought their native echoes to his ear_.--[MS.]

[ka] _From high and quickened into life and thought_.--[MS.]

[kb] {344} _Though no reluctance checked his willing hand,_ _He still obeyed as others would command_.--[MS.]

[kc]

_To tune his lute and, if none else were there,_ _To fill the cup in which himself might share_.--[MS.]

[kd] {345} _Yet still existed there though still supprest_.--[ms]

[ke] _And when the slaves and pages round him told_.--[ms]

[277] {346} [Compare--

"Strange things I have in head, that will to hand, Which must be acted, ere they may be scanned."

_Macbeth_, act iii. sc. 4, lines 139, 140.]

[kf] {347} _There lie the lover's hope--the watcher's toil_.--[MS.]

[kg] _And half-Existence melts within a grave_.--[MS.]

[278] {348} [Compare--

"Now slowly melting into day, Vapour and mist dissolved away."

Sotheby's _Constance de Castile_, Canto III. stanza v. lines 17, 18.]

[279] [Compare the last lines of Pippa's song in Browning's _Pippa Pa.s.ses_--"G.o.d's in His Heaven, all's right with the world!"]

[280] [Mr. Alexander Dyce points out the resemblance between these lines and a pa.s.sage in one of Pope's letters to Steele (July 15, 1712, _Works_, 1754, viii. 226): "The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green."]

[kh] {349} _When Ezzelin_----.--[Ed. 1831.]

[ki] _Here in thy hall_----.--[MS.]

[281] {351} [Compare _Mysteries of Udolpho_, by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, 1794, ii. 279: "The Count then fell back into the arms of his servants, while Montoni held his sword over him and bade him ask his life ... his complexion changed almost to blackness as he looked upon his fallen adversary."]

[kj] _And turned to smite a foe already felled_.--[MS.]

[kk] _And he less calm--yet calmer than them all_.--[MS.]

[kl] {353} ----_the blind and headlong rage_.--[MS.]

[km] {354} _The first impressions with his milder sway_ _Of dread_----.--[MS.]

[kn] _Mysterious gloom around his hall and state_.--[MS.]