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NOTES ON THE MSS. OF CHILDE HAROLD
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Insertions in the First Edition.
| Stanza | i. "Oh, thou! in Hellas deemed of heavenly birth,"— |
| „ | viii. "Yet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood,"— |
| „ | ix. "And none did love him!—though to hall and bower,"— |
| „ | xliii. "Oh, Albuera! glorious field of grief!"— |
| „ | lxxxv. "Adieu, fair Cadiz! yea, a long adieu!"— |
| „ | lxxxvi. "Such be the sons of Spain, and strange her Fate,"— |
| „ | lxxxviii. "Flows there a tear of Pity for the dead?"— |
| „ | lxxxix. "Not yet, alas! the dreadful work is done,"— |
| „ | xc. "Not all the blood at Talavera shed,"— |
| „ | xci. "And thou, my friend!—since unavailing woe,"— |
| „ | xcii. "Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most,"— |
The MS. of the Second Canto numbers eighty stanzas; the First Edition numbers eighty-eight stanzas.
Omissions from the MS.
| Stanza | viii. "Frown not upon me, churlish Priest! that I,"— |
| „ | xiv. "Come, then, ye classic Thieves of each degree,"— |
| „ | xv. "Or will the gentle Dilettanti crew,"— |
| „ | lxiii. "Childe Harold with that Chief held colloquy,"— |
Insertions in the First Edition.
| Stanza | viii. "Yet if, as holiest men have deemed, there be,"— |
| „ | ix. "There, Thou! whose Love and Life together fled,'— |
| „ | xv. "Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on Thee,"— |
| „ | lii. "Oh! where, Dodona! is thine agéd Grove?"— |
| „ | lxiii. "Mid many things most new to ear and eye,"— |
| „ | lxxx. "Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground,"— |
| „ | lxxxiii. "Let such approach this consecrated Land,"— |
| „ | lxxxiv. "For thee, who thus in too protracted song,"— |
| „ | lxxxv. "Thou too art gone, thou loved and lovely one!"— |
