II: The Morning Post
(1) Verses (Morning Post, February 5, 1814).
Suggested by reading some lines of Lord Byron's at the end of his newly published work, entitled "
The Corsair
" which begin:
"Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line."
"'[Far] better be the thing that crawls,[1]
Disgustful on a dungeon's walls;
Far better be the worm that creeps,
In icy rings o'er him who sleeps;'"