[n] {54} Stanzas To——.—[Editions 1816-1830.]
"Though the Day."—[MS. in Mrs. Leigh's handwriting.]
[77] [The "Stanzas to Augusta" were written in July, at the Campagne Diodati, near Geneva. "Be careful," he says, "in printing the stanzas beginning, 'Though the day of my Destiny's,' etc., which I think well of as a composition."—Letter to Murray, October 5, 1816, Letters, 1899, iii. 371.]
Though the days of my Glory are over,
And the Sun of my fame has declined.—[Dillon MS.]
[p]——had painted.—[MS.]
[78] [Compare—
"Dear Nature is the kindest mother still!...
To me by day or night she ever smiled."
Childe Harold, Canto II. stanza xxxvii. lines 1, 7, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 122.]
[q] I will not——.—[MS. erased.]