If at Mecca, the lines may stand as before. Page 45. canto 2d, Bride of Abydos. Yours, B.
"You will find this out either by article Mecca, Medina, or Mohammed. I have no book of reference by me."
Immediately after succeeded another note:—
"Did you look out? Is it Medina or Mecca that contains the Holy Sepulchre? Don't make me blaspheme by your negligence. I have no book of reference, or I would save you the trouble. I blush, as a good Mussulman, to have confused the point.
"Yours, B."
Notwithstanding all these various changes, the couplet in question stands at present thus:—
"Blest as the Muezzin's strain from Mecca's wall
To pilgrims pure and prostrate at his call."