n_----.--[MS.]

[nh] ----_thy sullied diadem_.--[MS.]

[315] {423} [Byron gave these verses to Moore for Mr. Power of the
Strand, who published them, with music by Sir John Stevenson. "I feel
merry enough," he wrote, March 2, "to send you a sad song." And again,
March 8, 1815, "An event--the death of poor Dorset--and the recollection
of what I once felt, and ought to have felt now, but could not--set me
pondering, and finally into the train of thought which you have in your
hands." A year later, in another letter to Moore, he says, "I pique
myself on these lines as being the _truest_, though the most melancholy,
I ever wrote." (March 8, 1816.)--_Letters_, 1899, iii. 181, 183, 274.]

[ni] _'Tis not the blush alone that fades from Beauty's cheek_.--[MS.]

[nj] {424} _As ivy o'er the mouldering wall that heavily hath
crept_.--[MS.]

[316] [Compare--

"And oft we see gay ivy's wreath
The tree with brilliant bloom o'erspread,
When, part its leaves and gaze beneath,
We find the hidden tree is dead."
"To Anna," _The Warrior's Return, etc._, by Mrs. Opie, 1808, p. 144.]

[317] {425} [From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray, now
for the first time printed. The MS. is headed, in pencil, "Lines written
on the Death of the Duke of Dorset, a College Friend of Lord Byron's,
who was killed by a fall from his horse while hunting." It is endorsed,
"Bought of Markham Thorpe, August 29, 1844." (For Duke of Dorset, see
_Poetical Works, 1898, i. 194, note 2_; and _Letters, 1899, in. 181,
note 1._)]

[nk] {426} ----_shall eternally be_.--[MS. erased.]

[nl] _Green be the turf_----.--[MS.]

[318] [Compare "O lay me, ye that see the light, near some rock of my
hills: let the thick hazels be around, let the rustling oaks be near.
Green be the place of my rest."--"The War of Inis-Thona," _Works of
Ossin_, 1765, i. 156.]

[nm] _May its verdure be sweetest to see_.--[MS.]

[nn] {427}
_Young flowers and a far-spreading tree_
_May wave on the spot of thy rest;_
_But nor cypress nor yew let it be_.--[MS.]

[319] ["We need scarcely remind our readers that there are points in
these spirited lines, with which our opinions do not accord; and,
indeed, the author himself has told us that he rather adapted them to
what he considered the speaker's feelings than his own."--_Examiner_,
July 30, 1815.]

[no] _The brightest and blackest are due to my fame_.--[MS.]

[np] _But thy destiny w