any state is.

As
Here thy harp has the will
To make our best feelings with extasy thrill.()
I cannot believe thou couldst write to thy wife,
(As if in her center'd the joys of thy life),
Like cold-hearted actor,(u) who plays o'er his part,
But feels no emotion subduing his heart.

Ah! no, my Lord Byron, 'tis since, that thy part
Thou actest, to hide the deep, rankling dart,
Shot fast in thy mind. Once again, I adjure!
Be nobly thyself! for 'tis virtue to cure,

By patient endurance, the ills we may meet,

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In transit through life; which, at most, is as fleet
As
vapour; Oh! turn thee! quick! turn thee! and come
To pleasure enshrin'd in the circle of HOME:

There hoard thee up treasures for AGE yet to come.

Yes, Byron; if living, thou too wilt grow old; The flash of thy youth will decay and be cold; The last draught of rapture will pass o'er thy lip;

The last drop of transport delirium can sip,

Will vanish away, as a cloud of the morn,

More fleet than the vapour of summer-heat born.

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Suppose thee return'd to thy country and home;

Suppose thee to meet, in the days yet to come,

The child whose existence is dated from thee,

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And whom, in the wreck of the things which now be, Thou fondly wouldst clasp in a Father's embrace;

But see her recede! with a blush on her face;

While, deep at her heart, a too sharply felt pain, Proclaims thee her Parent! and quick thrills again, 450

TO KNOW THEE THE AUTHOR OF WORSE BOOKS THAN CAIN!!

Notes to the Appeal.

NOTES (a, a)-Pages 9, 10, Lines 9, 14.

"While Nature makes that melancholy pause,
"Her breathing moment, on the bridge where time

Of light and darkness forms an arch sublime,

"Who hath not shar'd that calm so still and deep, "The voiceless thought that would not speak but weep; "A holy concord—and a bright regret,

"A glorious sympathy with suns that set?"

Monody to the Memory of Sheridan-BYRON.

NOTE (b)-Page 10, Line 26.

My boat is on the shore,

"And my bark is on the sea,

"But ere I go, Tom Moore,

"Here's a double health to thee!"

BYRON.

NOTE (c)-Page 11, Line 45.

"From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh,

"As ye peel a fig when the fruit is fresh ;

"And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull,

"As it slipp'd thro' their jaws, when their edge grew dull," &c. Siege of Corinth, Section XVI.

NOTE (d)-Page 11, Line 48.

"There is something of pride in the perilous hour,

There is neither yesterday nor to-morrow with the Eternal! The volition and its fulfilment are but one act of the Almighty mind.

NOTE (f)-Page 14, Line 109.

"Still seems as to my childhood sight

"A midway station given,

"For happy spirits to alight

"Betwixt the earth and heaven."

CAMPBELL to the Rainbow.

NOTE (g)-Page 15, Line 128.

"Turn ye! turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?" Ezek. xxxiii. 11.

NOTE (h)—Page 16, Line 159.

Don Juan, passim.

NOTE (i)-Page 17, Line 177.

"But 'tis as well at once to understand,

"You are not a moral people, and you know it
"Without the aid of too sincere a poet."

Don Juan, Canto XI. Stanza 87.

NOTE (j)-Page 19, Line 212.

“Mr. Campbell says, in the Life of Cowper, that he knows not " to whom Cowper alludes in these lines:

"Nor he, who for the bane of thousands born,

"Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.'

"The Calvinist" (Cowper)" meant Voltaire and the church of Ferney, with its inscription, Deo erixit Voltaire.””

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Notes to Canto V. of Don Juan.