Corsair, Canto I. lines 427, 428, Poetical Works, 1900, iii. 242.]

[BY]

A pleasure naught but drunkenness can bring:

For not the blest sherbet all chilled with snow.

Nor the full sparkle of the desert-spring,

Nor wine in all the purple of its glow.—[MS.]

[BZ] {134}Spread like an Ocean, varied, vast, and bright.—[MS.]

[CA]

—— I'm sure they never reckoned;

And being joined—like swarming bees they clung,