[cu] {95} Though scarcely marked——.—[MS.]
With him my wonder as he flew.—[MS.]
With him my roused and wondering view.—[MS. erased.]
[cw] {96} For him who takes so fast a flight.—[MS. erased.]
[67] [Compare—
"A moment now he slacked his speed,
A moment breathed his panting steed."
Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto I. stanza xxvii. lines 1, 2.]
[cx] And looked along the olive wood.—[MS.]
[68] "Tophaike," musket. The Bairam is announced by the cannon at sunset: the illumination of the mosques, and the firing of all kinds of small arms, loaded with ball, proclaim it during the night. [The Bairâm, the Moslem Easter, a festival of three days, succeeded the Ramazân.]
For the illumination of the mosques during the fast of the Ramazân, see Childe Harold, Canto II. stanza lv. line 5, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 134, note 2.