Chapter XXX: Canto II: stanza xxi. lines 5-14

[424] {519} ["I admire the fabrication of the 'big Tear,' which is very fine--much larger, by the way, than Shakespeare's."--Letter of John Murray to Lord Byron (_Memoir of John Murray_, 1891, i. 354).]

[425] [Compare _Christabel_, Part I. line 253--"A sight to dream of, not to tell!"]

[rc] {521} _For a departing beings soul_.--[Copy.]

[426] [For the peculiar use of "knoll" as a verb, compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xcvi. line 5; and _Werner_, act iii. sc. 3.]

[427] {522} [Lines 401-404, which are in Byron's handwriting, were added to the Copy.]

[rd] {523} _His latest beads and sins are counted_.--[Copy.]

[428] {524} [For the use of "electric" as a metaphor, compare Coleridge's _Songs of the Pixies_, v. lines 59, 60--

"The electric flash, that from the melting eye
Darts the fond question and the soft reply."]

[re] _But no more thrilling voice rose there_.--[Copy.]

[429] {526} [Here, again, Byron is _super grammaticam_. The comparison is between Hugo and "goodly sons," not between Hugo and "bride" in the preceding line.]

[430] [Lines 539-544 are not in the Copy, but were inserted in the Revise.]

[431] {527} [Lines 551-556 are not in the Copy, but were inserted in the Revise.]

[rf] _Ah, still unwelcomely was haunted_.--[Copy.]

[rg] _Had only sealed a just decree_.--[Copy.]

POEMS OF THE SEPARATION.