[405] [Compare Don Juan, Canto II. stanza cii. line 1, seq.—
"Famine, despair, cold, thirst, and heat, had done
Their work on them by turns, and thinned them to
Such things a mother had not known her son
Amidst the skeletons of that gaunt crew."
Compare, too, The Island, Canto I. section ix. lines 13, 14.]
[qt] {495} And crashed each mass of stone.—[MS. G. erased.]
And left their food the unburied dead.—[Copy.]
And left their food the untasted dead.—[MS. G.]
And howling left——.—[MS. G. erased.]
[406] [Omit the next six lines.—Gifford.]
[407] ["I have heard hyænas and jackalls in the ruins of Asia; and bull-frogs in the marshes; besides wolves and angry Mussulmans."—Journal, November 23, 1813, Letters, 1898, ii. 340.]
[qv] Where Echo rolled in horror still.—[MS. G.]
[qw] The frightened jackal's shrill sharp cry.—[MS. G. erased.]