Page:The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero) - Volume 2.djvu/49

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.

A ROMAUNT.

CANTO THE FIRST.

I.^[1]

Oh, thou! in Hellas deemed of heavenly birth,^[2]
⁠Muse! formed or fabled at the Minstrel's will!
⁠Since shamed full oft by later lyres on earth,^[3]^[4]
⁠Mine dares not call thee from thy sacred Hill:
⁠Yet there I've wandered by thy vaunted rill;^[5]

⁠Yes! sighed o'er Delphi's long deserted shrine,^N1

↑ [The MS. does not open with stanza i., which was written after Byron returned to England, and appears first in the Dallas Transcript (see letter to Murray, September 5, 1811). Byron and Hobhouse visited Delphi, December 16, 1809, when the First Canto (see stanza lx.) was approaching completion (Travels in Albania, by Lord Broughton, 1858, i. 199).]
↑ Oh, thou of yore esteemed ——.—[D.]
↑ Since later lyres are only strung on earth.—[D.]
↑ [For the substitution of the text for vars. ii., iii., see letter to Dallas, September 21, 1811 (Letters, 1898, ii. 43).]
↑ —— thy glorious rill.—[D.]
or, —— wooed thee, drank the vaunted rill.—[D.]

[1] [The MS. does not open with stanza i., which was written after Byron returned to England, and appears first in the Dallas Transcript (see letter to Murray, September 5, 1811). Byron and Hobhouse visited Delphi, December 16, 1809, when the First Canto (see stanza lx.) was approaching completion (Travels in Albania, by Lord Broughton, 1858, i. 199).]

[2] Oh, thou of yore esteemed ——.—[D.]

[3] Since later lyres are only strung on earth.—[D.]

[4] [For the substitution of the text for vars. ii., iii., see letter to Dallas, September 21, 1811 (Letters, 1898, ii. 43).]

[5] —— thy glorious rill.—[D.]
or, —— wooed thee, drank the vaunted rill.—[D.]

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]