vol. v. N.S., 1816, p. 273),
commenting on the "obvious carelessness" of these lines, remarks, "We
know not how 'all that of dead remained' could _expire_ in that wild
roar." To apply the word "expire" to inanimate objects is, no doubt, an
archaism, but Byron might have quoted Dryden as an authority, "The
ponderous ball expires."]

[qr] _The hills as by an earthquake bent_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[403] {494} [Strike out from "Up to the sky," etc., to "All blackened
there and reeking lay." Despicable stuff.--Gifford.]

[qs] _Who can see or who shall say?_--[MS. G. erased.]

[404] [Lines 1043-1047 are not in the Copy or MS. G., but were included
in the text of the First Edition.]

[405] [Compare _Don Juan_, Canto II. stanza cii. line 1, _seq._--

"Famine, despair, cold, thirst, and heat, had done
Their work on them by turns, and thinned them to
Such things a mother had not known her son
Amidst the skeletons of that gaunt crew."

Compare, too, _The Island_, Canto I. section ix. lines 13, 14.]

[qt] {495} _And crashed each mass of stone_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[qu]
_And left their food the unburied dead_.--[Copy.]
_And left their food the untasted dead_.--[MS. G.]
_And howling left_----.--[MS. G. erased.]

[406] [Omit the next six lines.--Gifford.]

[407] ["I have heard hyaenas and jackalls in the ruins of Asia; and
bull-frogs in the marshes; besides wolves and angry
Mussulmans."--_Journal_, November 23, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 340.]

[qv] _Where Echo rolled in horror still_.--[MS. G.]

[qw] _The frightened jackal's shrill sharp cry_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[408] I believe I have taken a poetical licence to transplant the jackal
from Asia. In Greece I never saw nor heard these animals; but among the
ruins of Ephesus I have heard them by hundreds. They haunt ruins, and
follow armies. [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza cliii. line 6;
and _Don Juan_, Canto IX. stanza xxvii. line 2.]

[qx] _Mixed and mournful as the sound_.--[MS. G.]

[409] [Leave out this couplet.--Gifford.]

[410] [With lines 1058-1079, compare Southey's _Roderick_ (Canto XVIII.,
ed. 1838, ix. 169)--

"Far and wide the thundering shout,
Rolling among reduplicating rocks,
Pealed o'er the hills, and up the mountain vales.
The wild ass starting in the forest glade
Ran to the covert; the affrighted wolf
Skulked through the thicket to a closer brake;
The sluggish bear, awakened in