[118] {135} [Vide ante, [p. 90], line 89, note 2, "In death from a stab the countenance preserves its traits of feeling or ferocity.">[
Her power to soothe—her skill to save—
And doubly darken o'er the grave,—[MS.]
[ef] {136}
Of Ladye-love—and dart—and chain—
And fire that raged in every vein.—[MS.]
Even now alone, yet undismayed,—
I know no friend, and ask no aid.—[MS.]
[119] [Lines 1127-1130 were inserted in the Seventh Edition. They recall the first line of Plato's epitaph, Ἀστὴρ πριν μὲν ἔλαμπες ἐνι ζωοῖσιν ἑῷος, which Byron prefixed to his "Epitaph on a Beloved Friend" (Poetical Works, 1898, i. 18), and which, long afterwards, Shelley chose as the motto to his Adonais.]
[eh] {137}
Yes If } Love indeed { doth spring descend be born } from heaven:
A spark of that { immortal eternal celestial } fire
To human hearts in mercy given,
To lift from earth our low desire,
A feeling from the Godhead caught,
To wean from self { each our } sordid thought:
Devotion sends the soul above,
But Heaven itself descends to love,
Yet marvel not, if they who love
This present joy, this future hope
Which taught them with all ill to cope,
No more with anguish bravely cope.—[MS.]