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fx When uttered to the listener's eye——.—[MS. L.]

fy The host, the plain, the fight——.—[MS. L.]

fz The shattered Mede who flies with broken bow.—[MS. L.]

196 ["The plain of Marathon is enclosed on three sides by the rocky arms of Parnes and Pentelicus, while the fourth is bounded by the sea." After the first rush, when the victorious wings, where the files were deep, had drawn together and extricated the shallower and weaker centre, which had been repulsed by the Persians and the Sakæ, "the pursuit became general, and the Persians were chased to their ships, ranged in line along the shore. Some of them became involved in the impassable marsh, and there perished." (See Childe Harold, edited by H. F. Tozer, 1885, p. 253; Grote's History of Greece, iv. 276. See, too, Travels in Albania, i. 378-384.)]

ga To tell what Asia troubled but to hear.—[MS. L.]

197 [See note to Canto II. stanzas i.-xv., pp. 99, 100.]

gb Long to the remnants—.——[D.]

198 [The "Ionian blast" is the western wind that brings the voyager across the Ionian Sea.]

199 [The original MS. closes with this stanza.]

gc Which heeds nor stern reproach——.—[D.]

gd Would I had ne'er returned——.—[D.]

200

"To Mr. Dallas.

The 'he' refers to 'Wanderer' and anything is better than I I I I always I.

Yours,

BYRON."

4th Revise B.M.]

ge But Time the Comforter shall come at last.—[MS. erased.]

201 [Compare Young's Night Thoughts ("The Complaint," Night i.). Vide ante, p. 95.]

gf Though Time not yet hath ting'd my locks with snow,*] Yet hath he reft whate'er my soul enjoy'd.—[D.]

*] "To Mr. Dallas.

If Mr. D. wishes me to adopt the former line so be it. I prefer the other I confess, it has less egotism—the first sounds affected.

Yours,

BYRON."

Dallas assented, and directed the printer to let the Roll stand.]