voice endears_.--
[December 2, 1813.]

(2) /_Dear_\ /_better_ \
{ } _as the melody of_ { } _days_
\_Soft_/ \_youthful_/
/ _a silent_ \
_That steals_ { } _tear of speechless praise_--
\_the trembling_/

[178] {197} "Jannat-al-Aden," the perpetual abode, the Mussulman
paradise. [See Sale's _Koran_, "Preliminary Discourse," sect. i.; and
_Journal_, November 17, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 326.]

[gs] _Wait on thy voice and bow at thy command_.--[MS.]

[gt]
_Oh turn and mingle every thought with his,_
_And all our future days unite in this_.--[MS.]

[179] ["You wanted some reflections, and I send you _per Selim_,
eighteen lines in decent couplets, of a pensive, if not an _ethical_
tendency.... Mr. Canning's approbation (_if_ he did approve) I need not
say makes me proud."--Letter to Murray, November 23, 1813, _Letters_,
1898, ii. 286.]

[gu]
_Man I may lead but trust not--I may fall_
_By those now friends to me, yet foes to all_--
_In this they follow but the bent assigned_,
_By fatal Nature to our warring kind_.--[MS.]

[gv] {198}
_Behold a wilderness and call it peace_,--[MS. erased.]
_Look round our earth and lo! where battles cease_,
_"Behold a Solitude and call it" peace_.--[MS.]
or,
_Mark even where Conquest's deeds of carnage cease_
_She leaves a solitude and calls it peace_.--[November 21, 1813].

[For the final alteration to the present text, see letter to Murray of
November 24, 1813.]

[180] [Compare Tacitus, _Agricola_, cap. 30--

"Solitudinem faciun--pacem appellant."

See letter to Murray, November 24, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 287.]

[gw] _Power sways but by distrust--her sole source_.--[MS. erased.]

[gx] _Which Love to-night hath lent by swelling sail_.--[MS.]

[181] {199} [Compare--

"Quam juvat immites ventos audire cubantem,
Et dominam tenero detinuisse sinu."
Tibullus, _Eleg_., Lib. I. i. 45, 46.]

[gy] _Then if my lip once murmurs, it must be_.--[MS.]

[182] [The omission of lines 938, 939 drew from Byron an admission
(Letter to Murray, November 29, 1813) that "the passage is an imitation
altogether from Medea in Ovid" (_Metamorph_., vii. 66-69)--