"If I might but be a sea-dove, I'd fly across the main—
To the pleasant isle of Aves, to look at it once again.">[
[oa] The kindly few who love my lay.—[MS.]
[ [338] [The MS. is dated Jy (January) 31, 1815. Lady Byron's copy is dated November 2, 1815.]
[ob] Many a year, and many an age.—[MS. G. Copy.]
[oc] A marvel from her Moslem bands.—[MS. G.]
[339] {452} [Timoleon, who had saved the life of his brother Timophanes in battle, afterwards put him to death for aiming at the supreme power in Corinth. Warton says that Pope once intended to write an epic poem on the story, and that Akenside had the same design (Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., 1806, ii. 83).]
[od] Or could the dead be raised again.—[MS. G. erased.]
——through yon clear skies
Than tower-capt Acropolis.—[MS. G.]
[of] Stretched on the edge——.—[MS. G. erased.]