8], p. xxix.)]

[ar]
_Are mingled with the Earth_.--[MS.]
_Were never meant for Earth_.--[MS. erased.]

[as] _Unhonoured with the vulgar dread_.--[MS. erased.]

[at] {42}
_I will not ask where thou art laid,_
_Nor look upon the name_.--[MS. erased.]

[au] _So I shall know it not_.--[MS. erased.]

[av] _Like common dust can rot_.--[MS.]

[aw] _I would not wish to see nor touch_.--[MS. erased.]

[ax] _As well as warm as thou_.--[MS. erased.]

[ay] MS. transposes lines 5 and 6 of stanza 3.

[az] _Nor frailty disavow_.--[MS.]

[ba] _Nor canst thou fair and faultless see_.--[MS. erased.]

[bb] _Nor wrong, nor change, nor fault in me_.--[MS.]

[bc] {43} _The cloud that cheers_----.--[MS.]

[bd] _The sweetness of that silent deep_.--[MS.]

[be]
_The flower in beauty's bloom unmatched_
_Is still the earliest prey_.--[MS.]
_The rose by some rude fingers snatched_,
_Is earliest doomed to fade_.--[MS. erased.]

[bf] _I do not deem I could have borne_.--[MS.]

[bg]
_But night and day of thine are passed_,
_And thou wert lovely to the last;_
_Destroyed_----.--[MS. erased.]

[bh] {44} _As stars that seem to quit the sky_.--[MS.]

[bi]
_O how much less it were to gain,_
_All beauteous though they be_.--[MS.]

[bj] _Through dark and dull Eternity_.--[MS.]

[bk] {45} _Sympathetic Address to a Young Lady_.--[_Morning Chronicle_,
March 7, 1812.]

[35] [The scene which begat these memorable stanzas was enacted at a
banquet at Carlton House, February 22, 1812. On March 6 the following
quatrain, entitled, "Impromptu on a Recent Incident," appeared in the
_Morning Chronicle_:--

"Blest omens of a happy reign,
In swift succession hourly rise,
Forsaken friends, vows made in vain--
A daughter's tears, a nation's sighs."

Byron's lines, headed, "Sympathetic Address to a Young Lady," were
published anonymously in the _Morning Chronicle_ of March 7, but it was
not till March 10 that the _Courier_ ventured to insert a report of "The
Fracas at Carlton House on the 22nd ult.," which had already been
communicated to the _Caledonian Mercury_.

"The party consisted of the Princess Charlotte, the Duchess of
York, the Dukes of York and Cambridge, Lords Moira, Erskine,
Lauderdale, Messrs. Adams and Sheridan.

"The Prince Regent expressed 'his surprise and mortification' at
the conduct of Lords Grey and Grenville