The sun goes forth-but Conrad's day is dim; XXIII. His heart was form'd for softness-warp'd to wrong; Each feeling pure-as falls the dropping dew Less clear, perchance, its earthly trials pass'd, Its tale, but shrunk and wither'd where it fell, XXIV. 'Tis morn―to venture on his lonely hour Few dare; though now Anselmo sought his tower. He was not there-nor seen along the shore; And Conrad comes not―came not since that day: Nor trace, nor tidings of his doom declare Where lives his grief, or perish'd his despair! Long mourn'd his band whom none could mourn beside; And fair the monument they gave his bride: Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. (17) NOTES TO THE CORSAIR. THE time in this poem may seem too short for the occurrences, but the whole of the Ægean isles are within a few hours sail of the continent, and the reader must be kind enough to take the wind as I have often found it. Note 1, page 26, last line. Of fair Olympia loved and left of old. Orlando, Canto 10. Note 2, page 32, line 19. Around the waves' phosphoric brightness broke. By night, particularly in a warm latitude, every stroke of the oar, every motion of the boat or ship, is followed by a slight flash like sheet lightning from the water. Coffee. Pipe. Note 3, page 36, line 20. Though to the rest the sober berry's juice. Note 4, page 36, line 22. The long Chibouque's dissolving cloud supply. Note 5, page 36, line 23. While dance the Almas to wild minstrelsy. Dancing-girls. Note to Canto II. page 37, line 13. It has been objected that Conrad's entering disguised as a spy is out of nature.-Perhaps so. I find something not unlike it in history. "Anxious to explore with his own eyes the state of the Vandals, Majorian ventured, after disguising the colour of his hair, to visit Carthage in the character of his own ambassador; and Genseric was afterwards mortified by the discovery, that he had entertained and dismissed the Emperor of the Romans. Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction; but it is a fiction which would not have been imagined unless in the life of a hero." Gibbon, D. and F. Vol. VI. p. 180. That Conrad is a character not altogether out of nature I shall attempt to prove by some historical coincidences which I have met with since writing "The Corsair." "Eccelin prisonnier," dit Rolandini, "s'enfermoit dans un silence menaçant, il fixoit sur la terre son visage feroce, et ne donnoit point d'essor à sa profonde indignation.-De toutes partes cependant les soldats et les peuples accouroient; ils vouloient voir cet homme, jadis si puissant, et la joie universelle eclatoit de toutes parts. "Eccelin etoit d'une petite taille; mais tout l'aspect de sa personne, tous ses mouvemens indiquoient un soldat.— Son langage etoit amer, son deportment superbe et par son seul egard, il faisoit trembler les plus hardis." Sismondi, tome III. page 219, 220. "Gizericus (Genseric, king of the Vandals, the conqueror of both Carthage and Rome), statura mediocris, et equi casu claudicans, animo profundus, sermone rarus, luxuriæ contemptor, irâ turbidus, habendi cupidus, ad solicitandas gentes providentissimus," &c. &c. Jornandes de Rebus Getius, c. 33: I beg leave to quote these gloomy realities to keep in countenance my Giaour and Corsair. Note 6, page 41, line 3. And my stern vow and order's laws oppose. The Dervises are in colleges, and of different orders, as the monks. Note 7, page 42, line 15. They seize that Dervise!—seize on Zatanai! Satan. Note 8, page 43, line 12. He tore his beard, and foaming fled the fight. A common and not very novel effect of Mussulman anger. See Prince Eugene's Memoirs, page 24. "The Seraskier "received a wound in the thigh; he plucked up his beard "by the roots, because he was obliged to quit the field." Note 9, page 45, line 9. Brief time had Conrad now to greet Gulnare. Gulnare, a female name; it means, literally, the flower of the pomegranate. Note 10, page 55, line 13. Till even the scaffold echoes with their jest! In Sir Thomas More, for instance, on the scaffold, and |