"They told me wild waves roll'd above "The face I view, the form I love;

They told me 'twas a hideous tale! "I'd tell it, but my tongue would fail : "If true, and from thine ocean-cave "Thou com'st to claim a calmer grave; "Oh! pass thy dewy fingers o'er

"This brow that then will burn no more; "Or place them on my hopeless heart: "But, shape or shade! whate'er thou art, "In mercy ne'er again depart!

"Or farther with thee bear

my soul

"Than winds can waft or waters roll!

"Such is my name, and such

my

"Confessor! to thy secret ear,

"I breathe the sorrows I bewail,

tale.

"And thank thee for the generous tear

"This glazing eye could never shed.

"Then lay me with the humblest dead,

And, save the cross above my head,

"Be neither name nor emblem spread,

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By prying stranger to be read,

"Or stay the passing pilgrim's tread."

He pass'd-nor of his name and race Hath left a token or a trace,

Save what the father must not say Who shrived him on his dying day: This broken tale was all we knew Of her he loved, or him he slew. (43)

NOTES TO THE GIAOUR.

Note 1, page 213, line 3.

That tomb, which, gleaming o'er the cliff. A tomb above the rocks on the promontory, by some supposed the sepulchre of Themistocles.

Note 2, page 214, line 7.

Sultana of the Nightingale.

The attachment of the nightingale to the rose is a wellknown Persian fable. If I mistake not, the "Bulbul of a thousand tales" is one of his appellations.

Note 3, page 215, line 1.

Till the gay mariner's guitar.

The guitar is the constant amusement of the Greek sailor by night with a steady fair wind, and during a calm, it is accompanied always by the voice, and often by dancing.

Note 4, page 216, line 18.

Where cold Obstruction's apathy.

"Ay, but to die and go we know not where,

"To lie in cold obstruction."

VOL. II.

Measure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 2.

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Note 5, page 217, line 2.

The first, last look by death reveal'd.

I trust that few of my readers have ever had an opportunity of witnessing what is here attempted in description, but those who have will probably retain a painful remembrance of that singular beauty which pervades, with few exceptions, the features of the dead, a few hours, and but for a few hours, after "the spirit is not there." It is to be remarked in cases of violent death by gun-shot wounds, the expression is always that of languor, whatever the natural energy of the sufferer's character; but in death from a stab the countenance preserves its traits of feeling or ferocity, and the mind its bias, to the last.

Note 6, page 219, line 16.

Slaves-nay, the bondsmen of a slave.

Athens is the property of the Kislar Aga (the slave of the seraglio and guardian of the women), who appoints the Waywode. A pander and eunuch-these are not polite, yet true appellations-now governs the governor of Athens!

Infidel.

Note 7, page 221, line 11.

'Tis calmer than thy heart, young Giaour.

Note 8, page 222, line 22.

In echoes of the far tophaike.

"Tophaike," musquet.-The Bairam is announced by the cannon at sunset; the illumination of the Mosques, and the firing of all kinds of small arms, loaded with ball, proclaim it during the night.