Behold a wilderness and call it peace,—[MS. erased.]
Look round our earth and lo! where battles cease,
"Behold a Solitude and call it" peace.—[MS.]
or, Mark even where Conquest's deeds of carnage cease
She leaves a solitude and calls it peace.—[November 21, 1813].
[For the final alteration to the present text, see letter to Murray of November 24, 1813.]
[ [180] [Compare Tacitus, Agricola, cap. 30—"Solitudinem faciun—pacem appellant." See letter to Murray, November 24, 1813, Letters, 1898, ii. 287.]
[gw] Power sways but by distrust—her sole source.—[MS. erased.]
[gx] Which Love to-night hath lent by swelling sail.—[MS.]
[181] {199} [Compare—
"Quam juvat immites ventos audire cubantem,
Et dominam tenero detinuisse sinu."
Tibullus, Eleg., Lib. I. i. 45, 46.]
[gy] Then if my lip once murmurs, it must be.—[MS.]
[182] [The omission of lines 938, 939 drew from Byron an admission (Letter to Murray, November 29, 1813) that "the passage is an imitation altogether from Medea in Ovid" (Metamorph., vii. 66-69)—