themselves affected.
[99] [Compare "As with a thousand waves to the rocks, so Swaran's host
came on."--_Fingal_, bk. i., Ossian's _Works_, 1807, i. 19.]
[dp] {116} _That neither gives nor asks for life_.--[MS.]
[100] {117} The flowered shawls generally worn by persons of rank.
[101] [Compare "Catilina vero longe a suis, inter hostium cadavera
repertus est, paululum etiam spirans ferociamque animi, quam habuerat
vivus, in vultu retinens."--_Catilina_, cap. 61, _Opera_, 1820, i. 124.]
[dq] {118}
_His mother looked from the lattice high_,
_With throbbing heart and eager eye;_
_The browsing camel bells are tinkling_,
_And the last beam of twilight twinkling:_
_'Tis eve; his train should now be nigh_.
_She could not rest in her garden bower_,
_And gazed through the loop of her steepest tower_.
_"Why comes he not? his steeds are fleet_,
_And well are they train'd to the summer's heat_."--[MS.]
Another copy began--
_The browsing camel bells are tinkling_,
_And the first beam of evening twinkling;_
_His mother looked from her lattice high_,
_With throbbing breast and eager eye_--
"'_Tis twilight--sure his train is nigh_."--[MS. Aug. 11, 1813.]
_The browsing camel's bells are tinkling_
_The dews of eve the pasture sprinkling_
_And rising planets feebly twinkling:_
_His mother looked from the lattice high_
_With throbbing heart and eager eye_.--[Fourth Edition.]
[These lines were erased, and lines 689-692 were substituted. They
appeared first in the Fifth Edition.]
[102] ["The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through
the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels
of his chariot?"--Judges v. 28.]
[dr] {119} _And now his courser's pace amends_.--[MS. erased.]
[ds] _I could not deem my son was slow_.--[MS. erased.]
[dt]
_The Tartar sped beneath the gate_
_And flung to earth his fainting weight_.--[MS.]
[103] The calpac is the solid cap or centre part of the head-dress; the
shawl is wound round it, and forms the turban.
[104] The turban, pillar, and inscriptive verse, decorate the tombs of
the Osmanlies, whether in the cemetery or the wilderness. In the
mountains you frequently pass similar mementos; and on inquiry you are
informed that they record some victim of rebellion, plunder, or revenge.
[The following is a "Koran verse:" "Every one that is upon it (the
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