[62] {91} [From hence to the conclusion of the paragraph, the MS. is written in a hurried and almost illegible hand, as if these splendid lines had been poured forth in one continuous burst of poetic feeling, which would hardly allow time for the pen to follow the imagination.—(Note to Edition 1837. The lines were added to the Second Edition.)]
[cl] Fountain of Wisdom! can it be.—[MS. erased.]
[63] [Compare—"Son of the Morning, rise! approach you here!" Childe Harold, Canto II. stanza iii. line 1.]
Why is not this Thermopylæ;
These waters blue that round you lave
Degenerate offspring of the free—
How name ye them what shore is this?
The wave, the rock of Salamis?—[MS.]
[cn] {92}
And he who in the cause expires,
Will add a name and fate to them
Well worthy of his noble stem.—[MS.]
[co] Commenced by Sire—renewed by Son.—[MS.]
Attest it many a former age
While kings in dark oblivion hid.—[MS.]