eltering on a gibbet'?--there is no dictionary, so look
or ask. In the meantime, I have put 'festering,' which perhaps in any
case is the best word of the two.--P.S. Be quick. Shakespeare has it
often and I do not think it too strong for the figure in this
thing."--Letter to Murray, April 2.]

[sm] _And weltering in the infamy of years_.--[MS. M.]

[438] [His sister, the Honourable Mrs. Leigh.--These stanzas--the
parting tribute to her whose tenderness had been his sole consolation in
the crisis of domestic misery--were, we believe, the last verses written
by Lord Byron in England. In a note to Mr. Rogers, dated April 16
[1816], he says, "My sister is now with me, and leaves town to-morrow;
we shall not meet again for some time at all events--_if ever!_ and
under these circumstances I trust to stand excused to you and Mr.
Sheridan, for being unable to wait upon him this evening."--Note to
Edition of 1832, x. 193.

A fair copy, broken up into stanzas, is endorsed by Murray, "Given to me
(and I believe composed by Ld. B.), Friday, April 12, 1816."]

[sn] ----_grew waste and dark_.--[MS. M.]

[so] {545} _When Friendship shook_----.--[MS. M.]

[sp] _Thine was the solitary star_.--[MS. M.]

[sq] _Which rose above me to the last_.--[MS. M.]

[sr]
_And when the cloud between us came_.--[MS. M.]
_And when the cloud upon me came_.--[Copy C. H.]

[ss] _Which would have closed on that last ray_.--[MS. M.]

[st] _Then stiller stood the gentle Flame_.--[MS. M.]

[su] _Still may thy Spirit sit on mine_.--[MS. M.]

[sv] {546}
_And thou wast as a lovely Tree_
_Whose branch unbroke but gently bent_
_Still waved with fond Fidelity_.--[Copy C. H.]

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