a's wall to Danube's side_.--[MS. G.]

[oo] _Pisani held_----.--[MS. G.]

[op] _Than she, the beauteous stranger, bore_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[347] {459} [For Byron's use of the phrase, "Forlorn Hope," as an
equivalent of the Turkish Delhis, or Delis, see _Childe Harold_, Canto
II. ("The Albanian War-Song"), _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 149, note 1.]

[oq] _By stepping o'er_----.--[MS. G.]

[348] ["Brown" is Byron's usual epithet for landscape seen by moonlight.
Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza xxii. line 6, etc., _Poetical
Works_, 1899, ii. 113, note 3.]

[or] _Bespangled with her isles_----.--[MS. G.]

[349] ["Stars" are likened to "isles" by Campbell, in _The Pleasures of
Hope_, Part II.--

"The seraph eye shall count the starry train,
Like distant isles embosomed on the main."

And "isles" to "stars" by Byron, in _The Island_, Canto II. stanza xi.
lines 14, 15--

"The studded archipelago,
O'er whose blue bosom rose the starry isles."

For other "star-similes," see _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza
lxxxviii. line 9, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 270, note 2.]

[os]
_And take a dark unmeasured tone._--[MS. G.]
_And make a melancholy moan_,
_To mortal voice and ear unknown._--[MS. G. erased.]

[350] {461} [Compare Scott's _Marmion_, III. xvi. 4--

"And that strange Palmer's boding say,
That fell so ominous and drear."]

[ot]
----_by fancy framed_,
_Which rings a deep, internal knell_,
_A visionary passing-bell._--[MS. G. erased.]

[ou] _The thoughts tumultuously roll._--[MS. G.]

[ov] {462} _To triumph o'er_----.--[MS. G. erased.]

[ow]
_They but provide, he fells the prey._--[MS. G.]
_As lions o'er the jackal sway_
_By springing dauntless on the prey;_
_They follow on, and yelling press_
_To gorge the fragments of success._--[MS. G. erased.]

[351] [Lines 329-331 are inserted in the copy. They are in Byron's
handwriting. Compare _Don Juan_, Canto IX. stanza xxvii. line 1,
_seq._--"_That's_ an appropriate simile, _that jackal_."]

[ox] {463}
_He vainly turned from side to side_,
_And each reposing posture tried_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[oy] _Beyond a rougher_----.--[MS. G.]

[oz] ----_to sigh for day_.--[MS. G.]

[pa] {464}
_Of Liakura--his unmelting snow_
_Bright and eternal_----.--[MS. G. erased.]

[352] [Compare _The Giaour_, line 566 (_vide ante_, p. 113)--

"For where is he t