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Thy late repentance, long despair,
⁠Thou throneless Homicide?
If still she loves thee, hoard that gem,—
'Tis worth thy vanished diadem!^{[decimal 1]}

XIV.
Then haste thee to thy sullen Isle,
⁠And gaze upon the sea;^{[lower-roman 1]}
That element may meet thy smile—
⁠It ne'er was ruled by thee!
Or trace with thine all idle hand^{[lower-roman 2]}
In loitering mood upon the sand
⁠That Earth is now as free!
That Corinth's pedagogue^{[decimal 2]} hath now
Transferred his by-word to thy brow.

1. ⁠And look along the sea;
   That element may meet thy smile,
   ⁠For Albion kept it free.
   But gaze not on the land for there
   Walks crownless Power with temples bare
   ⁠And shakes the head at thee
   And Corinth's Pedagogue hath now.—[Proof ii.]

2. Or sit thee down upon the sand
   And trace with thine all idle hand.—[A final correction made in Proof ii.]

1. [Count Albert Adam de Neipperg, born 1774, an officer in the Austrian Army, and, 1811, Austrian envoy to the Court of Stockholm, was presented to Marie Louise a few days after Napoleon's abdication, became her chamberlain; and, according to the Nouvelle Biographie Universelle "plus tard il l'épousa." The count, who is said to have been remarkably plain (he had lost an eye in a scrimmage with the French), died April 12, 1829.]
2. ["Dionysius at Corinth was yet a king to this,"—Diary, April 9. Dionysius the Younger, on being for the second time banished from Syracuse, retired to Corinth (B.C. 344), where "he is said to have opened a school for teaching boys to read" (see Plut., Timal., c. 14), but not, apparently, with a view to making a living by pedagogy.—Grote's Hist. of Greece, 1872, ix. 152.]