[359] ["Than the mangled corpse in its own blood lying."—Gifford.]
[pn] Than the rotting dead——.—[MS. G. erased.]
[360] [Strike out—
"Scorch'd with the death-thirst, and writhing in vain,
Than the perishing dead who are past all pain."
What is a "perishing dead"?—Gifford.]
[361] [Lines 487, 488 are inserted in the copy in Byron's handwriting.]
[po] And when all——.—[MS. G.]
[362] ["O'er the weltering limbs of the tombless dead."—Gifford.]
All that liveth on man will prey,
All rejoicing in his decay,
or, Nature rejoicing in his decay.
All that can kindle dismay and disgust
Follow his frame from the bier to the dust.—[MS. G. erased.]