d-}
a
But in this page {-the-} record {-which-} I seek
will
{-from out of the deep-}
{-stands and-} {-of that remorse-}
{-Shall stand and when that hour shall come and come-}
{-Shall come--though I be ashes--and shall pile heap-}
{-It will-} {-come and wreak-}
{-In fire the measure-}
{-The fiery prophecy-}
{-The fullness of my-}
{-The fullness of my prophecy or heap-}
{-The mountain of my curse-}
Not in the air shall these my words disperse
{-'Tis written that an hour of deep remorse-}
Though I be ashes {-a deep-} far hour shall wreak
{-The fullness Thee-} this
The deep prophetic fullness of {-my-} verse
And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse.--[MS. M.]

[or] {429}
If to forgive be "heaping coals of Fire"
As God hath spoken--on the heads of foes
Mine should lie a Volcano-and rise higher
Than o'er the Titans crushed Olympus rose
Than Athos soars, or blazing AEtna glows:
True--they who stung were petty things--but what
Than serpent's sting produce more deadly throes.
The Lion may be tortured by the Gnat--
Who sucks the slumberer's blood--the Eagle? no, the Bat.[Sec.]--
[MS. M.]

[Sec.] [The "Bat" was "a sobriquet by which Lady Caroline Lamb was well
known in London society." An Italian translation of her novel,
_Glenarvon_, was at this time in the press at Venice (see letter to
Murray, August 7, 1817), and it is probable that Byron, who declined to
interdict its publication, took his revenge in a petulant stanza, which,
on second thoughts, he decided to omit. (See note by Mr. Richard
Edgcumbe, _Notes and Queries_ eighth series, 1895, viii. 101.)]

[510] [Compare "Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was ill," lines 53-55.]

[511] {431} Whether the wonderful statue which suggested this image be a
laquearian gladiator, which, in spite of Winckelmann's criticism, has
been stoutly maintained; or whether it be a Greek herald, as that great
antiquary positively asserted;[Sec.] or whether it is to be thought a
Spartan or barbarian shieldbearer, according to the opinion of his
Italian editor; it must assuredly seem _a copy_ of that masterpiece of
Ctesilaus which represented "a wounded man dying, who perfectly
express