When Wealth and Taste their worst and best have done,
Meek Peace pollution's lure voluptuous still must shun.—[MS.]
But now thou blasted Beacon unto man.—[MS.]
——thou Beacon unto erring man.—[MS. D.]
[be] [{38}] Vain are the pleasaunces by art supplied.—[MS. D.]
[bf] ——yclad, and by.—[MS. D.]
[bg] Where blazoned glares a name spelt "Wellesley."—[MS. D.]
[bh] ——are on the roll.—[MS. erased, D.]
[bi] The following stanzas, which appear in the MS., were excluded at the request of Dallas (see his letter of October 10, 1811, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, 1824, pp. 173-187), Letters, 1898, ii. 51:—
In golden characters right well designed
First on the list appeareth one "Junot;"
Then certain other glorious names we find,
(Which Rhyme compelleth me to place below:)
Dull victors! baffled by a vanquished foe,
Wheedled by conynge tongues of laurels due,
Stand, worthy of each other in a row—
Sirs Arthur, Harry, and the dizzard Hew
Dalrymple, seely wight, sore dupe of t'other tew.