And take a dark unmeasured tone.—[MS. G.]
And make a melancholy moan,
To mortal voice and ear unknown.—[MS. G. erased.]
[350] {461} [Compare Scott's Marmion, III. xvi. 4—
"And that strange Palmer's boding say,
That fell so ominous and drear.">[
——by fancy framed,
Which rings a deep, internal knell,
A visionary passing-bell.—[MS. G. erased.]
[ou] The thoughts tumultuously roll.—[MS. G.]
[ov] {462} To triumph o'er——.—[MS. G. erased.]
They but provide, he fells the prey.—[MS. G.]
As lions o'er the jackal sway
By springing dauntless on the prey;
They follow on, and yelling press
To gorge the fragments of success.—[MS. G. erased.]
[351] [Lines 329-331 are inserted in the copy. They are in Byron's handwriting. Compare Don Juan, Canto IX. stanza xxvii. line 1, seq.—"That's an appropriate simile, that jackal.">[