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 Introductory Note. 
 
 TiiR First and Seunml Cantos of Ciiildk Hakold'm Pilhrimaok, published in 1812, 
 at on^o ranked IJyron anions' the avvixt poets of his country. Keferiiii;;- t.i the 
 suddenneHS with whUh tlie poem Ha.slied upon the publie eye, he says : " 1 wenfe 
 to bed one ni^lit, and jfot up to (ind myself famous." 
 
 Sott's tliree ijreat romance poems had (|uiekened the public appetite for 
 poetry ; and Hyron's brilliant poetical diary, conibiniiiff the interests of a roman- 
 tic and strikint; individuality with pictures(|ue descriptions of scenes and events 
 which wtr'j then attractint,' tiie eyes of hurope, cau$j;ht the )iublic Imaf^ination, a* 
 as it was beeomin!; satiated with Scott's jjuruly ideal creations. 
 
 Byron's i>lan, or, more properly, want of ))lan or combination in his structure* 
 was admirably adapted to his disposition, and left him at perfect liberty in the 
 choice of the subjects he took up, and liis nni'.mer of treating? them, provided the 
 result w.„s strikinn;. The connecting- thread of the poet's personality- the only 
 " •lt{n1i<^as subject of the jwem— is taken up or dropped at pleasure without 
 - .ec its interest. 
 
 ... -rdin<f nhilde Harold's moral consistency, Byron candidly ren)arks, that 
 " • -• was iinended as an example, further than to show that early ()erver- 
 
 sl ' i mt id and morals lead.s to satiety of past pleasures and disappointment ia 
 ■•/■ ' /i.os : and 'that even the beauties of nature and the stiujulus of travel 
 
 c >..f<t ambition, the most powerful of all excitements) are lost on a soui go 
 
 "instituted, or rather nusdirected" 
 
 C .lii K *as a title of nobility ecjuivalent to lord. Childe Harold is believed to 
 bo Lord Byron himself, who was twenty -two when he began this poem and wae 
 seven years in finishing it. 
 
 TO lANTHEi 
 
 Not in those climes where I have late been straying,2 
 Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed; 
 Not in those visions to the heart displaying 
 Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed, 
 Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seemed : 
 Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek 
 To paint those charms which varied as they beamed : 
 To such as see thee not my words were weak ; 
 To those who gaze on thee what language could they speak ! 
 
 Ah ! may'st thou ever be what now thou art, 
 Nor unbeseem^ the promise of thy spring, 
 
 1 From Or. Ion, a lily. The j'oung beauty thus addicssed, in her eleventh 
 year, was Lady Charlotte Harley, daughter of the Earl Oi Oxford, and afterward* 
 Lady C. Bacon 2 Spain, Portugal, Albania, and Greece, 3 Unbeseenubelie, 
 disappoint ; seldom used as a verb. - ^' " 
 
 
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2 CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGIUMAGE. 
 
 As fair in form, as warm yet pure in heart, 
 Love's image upon eartli witliont his wing, 
 And guileless l)eyon<l Hope' imagining ! 
 And surely slie wiio now so fondly roars 
 Thy youtli, in tiiee, tluis hourly hrightoning, 
 Beholds the rainhow^ of her futine years, 
 Before whose heavenly hues all sorrow disappears. 
 
 Young Peri^ of the West !— 'tis well for me 
 My years already douhly numlx-r thine ; 
 My loveless eye unmoved may gaze on thee, 
 And safely view thy ripening heauties shine ; 
 Happy, 1 ne'er shall see them in decline ; 
 Happier, that wiiile all younger hearts shall hieed, 
 Mine shall escape the doom thine eyes assign 
 To those wliose admiration shall succeed, 
 But mixed with pangs to Love's even loveliest hours decreed. 
 
 Oh! let that e\e, which, wild as the Gazelle's,^ 
 Now hrightly hold or beautifully sliy, 
 Wins as it wanders, dazzles where it dwells, 
 Glance o'er this page, nor to my verse deny 
 That smile for which my breast might vainly sigh 
 Could I to thee be ever more than friend : 
 This much, dear maid, acc( rd ; nor question why 
 To one so young my strain I would commend, 
 But bid me with my wreath one matchless lily blend. 
 
 Such is thy name with this my verse entwined ; 
 
 And long as kinder eyes a look sliall cast 
 
 On HiU-old's page, lantiie's- here enshrined 
 
 Shall thus be first belield, forgotten last : 
 
 My dav's once numbered, should this homage past 
 
 Attract thy fairy fingers near tlie lyre 
 
 Of him who hailed tl.ee, loveliest as thou wast, 
 
 Such is the most my memory nay desire ; 
 
 Though more than Hope can claim, could Friendship less 
 require ? 
 
 a n^^^r^A^') the emblem of hope. 5 Pen, Persian female fairy 
 ^Gazelle, Arab, gazalaix wild goat ; an elegantly formed spjcies of antelop > 
 7 Th7 the eyes of a jrazelle is the highest com,.limBnt paid to an eastern onmn' 
 
CHILItK IIAKOLD'.S I'lLcUlMAJ^E. 
 
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 Oh, thou ! in Hollns deemed of heaver 'y biitli, 
 Muse ! formed or fabled ut the minstrel's will ! 
 Since shamed full oft by later lyres on earth, 
 ISIijio dnres not call thee from thy sacred hill : 
 Yet tlicre I've wandered by thy vaunted rill ; 
 Yes! siijhed o'er Delphi's long-deserted shrine, 
 Where, save that feeble fountain, all is still ; 
 Nor mote my shell awake tiie weary nine 
 To grace so plain a tale — tliis lowly lay of mine. 
 
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 Whilome in Albion's isle there dwelt :; youth, 
 Who lie in virtue's ways did take delight , 
 lint spent his days in riot most uncouth, 
 And vexed witii mirth tiie drowsy ear of Night. 
 Ah me ! in st)oth he was a shame'ess wigh.t, 
 Sore given to revel and ungfnlly glee ; 
 Few earthly things found favor in his sight 
 Save concubines and carnal comi)anie. 
 And flaunting wassailers of high and low degree. 
 
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 CiiiLDK Haiiold's Pilgrimaok, Cantos I. and II., was written nmstly in Albania 
 and Greece, between 1809 and ISll. Byron adopted the Si)en8erian stanza on 
 aucount of its Hexibiiity, and the freedom with whieli it lulniitted of liis being 
 " droll or iiathetic, descriptive or ^sentimental, render or satirical," as the humor 
 Struck him. A sli;,dit s])rinklin<,'' of archaic words is introduced, as in consonance 
 with the structure of the verse. 
 
 I. Hellas. The Greeks call their country Hellas, and themselves Hellenes, 
 from their mythical progcnitoi Hellen. 
 
 3. Lyrk.s, used figuratively for the poetic faculty. 
 
 4, 5. Sacrki) mill. Alouiits Helicon and Parnassus vera both sacred to the 
 
 Muses ; from the reference to Delphi, the latter is perhi.i>s meant. Vai'nted 
 
 RILL, the Castalian stream. See note (335-(538. 
 
 6. Oelimii's LONo-nKSKRTEi) sMKiNE. The site of the famous temple of Apollo is 
 now mostly occupied by the little villai^e of C'astri. 
 
 8. MoTK, for mijfht, or nmst. NiSR. The nine Muses.— — Shkll is here 
 
 synonymous with lyre, which is said to have been first made by strintfs drawn 
 across a tertoise shell. 
 
 10. WiiiLO.ME, O. Ell),'., once, atone time.- Albid.v. An ancient name of the 
 
 island of Great Britain. 
 
 II. Ne, A.S. not, never. 
 
 14. WiOHT, A.S. fellow, man. 
 
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CHiLDK Harold's pilgrimage. 
 
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 Childo Harold was he hi^ht :— hut whence his name * 
 And liiu>iig(? lon^', it suits me not to say ; 20 
 
 SnHico it, ti»at jwrchanco they were of fame, 
 And had heen j^loriouH in another day : 
 But one sad lose! soils a name for nye, 
 However mif,'iity in the olden time ; 
 Nor all that lieralds rake from coffined clay, 25 
 
 Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lies of rhyme, 
 Can bl'izon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Childe Harold basked liin) in the noontide sun, 
 Disporting there like any other fly ; 
 
 Nor deemed before his little day was done 30 
 
 One blast might chill him into misery. 
 But long ere ecurce a third of his passed by, 
 Worse than adversity the Childe befell ; 
 He folt the fullness of satiety : 
 
 Then loathed he in his native land to dwell, 35 
 
 Wh^nh seemed to him more lone than Eremite's sad cell. 
 
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 For he through Sin's long labyrinth had run. 
 Nor made atonement when he did amiss. 
 Had sierhed to many thougii he loved but one. 
 And that loved one, alas ! could ne'er be his. 
 Ah, happy she ! to 'scape from him whose kiss 
 Had been pollution unto aught so chaste ; 
 Who soon had left her charms for vulgar bliss, 
 And spoiled her goodly lands to gild his waste, 
 Nor calm domestic peace had ever deigned to taste. 45 
 
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 19. CuiLDE, A.S. c/M, child, ajoun<f knight or squire. Harold, a Norman 
 
 name. Byron's first English ancestor is said to have come over with the 
 Conqueror. Hight, was called. 
 
 23. L08EL, loose, wasteful fellow. 
 
 27. Blazon, heraldic term, here used for make illustrious. 
 
 8?. A THIRD OF HIS ; that is, the third part of his day, or life ; he was now 
 twenty-four. 
 
 36. Eremite, poetical rendering of hermit. 
 
 40. That loved one, Mary Anne Chaworth, afterwards Mrs. Musters. To her 
 rejection of his addresses the poet attrihutea his quitting England. 
 
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 And now Cliildo Hiirnid vvhh sore sick i.t heart, 
 And IVoni liis tVllow hiicclmniil« wonld flee ; 
 'TJH sjiid. Ht times the sidlen tear would s(art, 
 But Pride concealed the (h-op witlun his ee ; 
 Apart he stalked in joyleas reverie, 5° 
 
 And from his native land resolved to go, 
 And visit scorchinii: climes heyond tlie sea ; 
 With pleasure druyj^ed, lie almott longed for woe, 
 And e'en for change of scene W')uld seek the shades below. ^ 
 
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 The Childe d rted from Ins father's hail : 55 
 
 It was a vast ! venerable pile ; 
 So old, it seemiid only not to fall. 
 Yet strength wis pillared in eacli massy aisle. 
 Monastic dome ! condemned to uses vile I 
 Where Superritition once had made her den 60 
 
 Now Paphian girls were knowti to sing an-*' sp ile: 
 And monks might deem their time wa come figen, 
 If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Yet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood 
 Strange pangs would flash along Childe Harold's brow, 65 
 As if the memory of some. deadly feud 
 Or disappointed passion lurked bf^low : 
 But this none knew, nor haply cared to know ; 
 For his was not tliat open, artless soul 
 That feels relief by bidding sorrow flow, 70 
 
 Nor sought he friend iu counsel or condole, 
 Whate'er this grief mote be, which lie could not control. 
 
 IX. 
 
 ^nd none did love him : tiiough to hall and bower 
 He gathered revelers from far and near, 
 Ho knew them flatt'rers of the festal hour : 75 
 
 The heartless parasites of present cheer. 
 
 49. Ek, Scotch for o.ve, used for the rhyme. 
 
 59. Monastic dome refers to Newstead Abbey, the pott's ancestral mansion. 
 
 61. Pai'HIAx uikls, from Faphos in Cyprus, near which Venus is said by Hesiod 
 to have sprung from the sea-foam. 
 
 71. CoNDOLs;, c!!1pti(.aily for to condole with him. 
 
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 Yea! none did love him — not his lemans dear — 
 But pomp and power alone are woman's care, 
 And where tiiese are light Eros finds a feere ; 
 Maidens, like niotiis, are ever caught by glare, 80 
 
 And Mamon wins )ns way where Seraphs might despah'. 
 
 X. 
 
 Childc Harold had a mother — not forgot. 
 Though parting from that mother he did shun ; 
 A sister whom ho loved, but saw her not 
 Before his weary pilgrimage begun : 85 
 
 If friends he had, he bade adieu to none. 
 Yet deem not thence his breast a breast of steel : 
 Ye, who have known what 'tis to dote upon 
 A few dear objects, will in sadness feel 
 Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal. 90 
 
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 His house, his home, his heritage, his lands, 
 The laughing dames in whom he did delight. 
 Whose large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands, 
 Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. 
 And long had i'e(\ his youthful appetite; 95 
 
 His goblets brimmed with every costly wine, 
 Ant! all that mote to luxury invite. 
 Without a sigh he left, t(j cross the brir.e. 
 And traverse Paynim shores and pass Earth's central line. 
 
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 The sails were tilled, and hiir the light winds blew, 100 
 As glad to watt him from his native home ; 
 And fast the wliite rocks faded from his view. 
 Ami soon were lost in circumambient foam : 
 
 77. Lkmass, lovets, imriuiioiirs. 
 
 70. LiUIIT KltO.S KIXDH A FKKKK, I.OVL" liluls 11 COlupillliDll (T <Mins(>lt. 
 
 81. Mammon wins, etc.. a iiarody of roi)e's line: " Knols rusli in where aiififels 
 fear in tread " I'Jm-Ktj/ on Cfiticisni, iV.'.'). 
 
 84. A sisTKU, his liulf-sister. Ui" llonorahic Aiii;usta I.ei;;'!), to whtini he 
 addressed noine <p1 Ids Ot't'xniOiidl Pieces. 
 
 91. Mis iiorHK, ote. The pieture in tliis and stanza vii. iH f,:vatly exajij^'eratetl, 
 if not alt(H4-ether untrue, as regards tlio pnet'rf enndurtat his aneestral hoiue. 
 
 its. Hkink. from A.S. hriniidii, to huni, pnetieally aiijplied to tlie sea. 
 !)'.». I'aynim, iNor.-Freiieh, from Lat. /xniaiius, heathen, uiosliy applied to 
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CHILDE HA HOLD'S PILGRIMAGE. 
 
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 And then, it may he, of his wis'n to roam 
 Repented lie, bnt in his hosom slept 
 The silent thought, nor from liis lips did come 
 One word of wail, whi st othera sale and wept, 
 And to the reckless gales unmanly moanmg kept- 
 
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 But when the sun was sinking in the sea 
 He seized his harp which he at times could strmg, 
 And strike, albeit with untaught melody, 
 When deemed he no strange ear was listenmg : 
 And now his lingers o'er it he did fling, 
 And tuned his farewell in the dim twiliglit. 
 While tlew the vessel on her snowy wnig. 
 And fleeting shores receded from his sight ^^ 
 
 Thus to the elements he poured his last "Good Mght. 
 
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 Adieu, adieu '. my native sliore 
 
 Fade.-! o'er the waters blue ; 
 The night-winds sigh, tlie breakers roar, 
 
 And shrieks tlie wild sea-mew. 
 Yon sun that sets upon the sea 
 
 We follow in his flight ; 
 Farewell awhile to him and thee, 
 
 My native Land— (Jood Night! 
 
 A few short hours and he will rise 
 
 To give the morrow Itirtli ; 
 And I slial' hail the main and skies, 
 
 But not my mother earth. 
 Deserted is my own good hall, 
 
 Its hearth is desolate ; 
 Wild weeds are gathering on the wall ; 
 
 My dog howls at the gate. 
 
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 " Come hither, hither, my little page! 
 
 Why dost thou weep and wail ? 
 
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 "l08. KKi'T up their nxmiun- in oncfVl with the -ales. 
 
8 CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. 
 
 Or (lost thou dread the billow.s' rage, 
 
 Or tremble at (he gale? 
 But dash the tear-drop IVoni thine eye ; 
 
 Our ship is swilt and strong : 
 Oui- fleetest falcon scarce can fly 
 
 More merrily along." 
 
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 " Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high, 
 
 I fear not wave nor wind : 
 Yet marvel not, Sir Childe, that I 
 
 Am sorrowful in mind ; 
 For I have from mv father gone, 
 
 A mother whom I love, 
 And have no friend, save these alone, 
 
 But thee— and one above. 
 
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 " My father blessed me fervently. 
 
 Yet did not much complain ; 
 But sorely will my hiother sigh 
 
 Till I come back again." — 
 "Enough, enough, my little lad ! 
 
 Such tears become thine eye ; 
 If I thy guileless bosom had, 
 
 Mine own would not be dry, 
 
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 "Come hither, hitlier, my staunch yeoman, 
 
 Wb.y dost thou look so pale ? 
 Or dost thou dread a French foeman ? 
 
 Or shiver at the gale ?" — 
 " Deem'st thou I tremble for my life ? 
 
 Sir Childe, I'm not so weak ; 
 But tliinking on an absent wife 
 
 Will blanch a faithful ciieek. 
 
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 " My pponse and hoys dwell near thy hall, 
 Along tlie bordering lake. 
 
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 And when they on their father call, 
 What answer shall she make ?" 
 
 " Enough, enough, my yeoman good, 
 Thy grief let none gainsay ; 
 
 But I, who nm of lighter mood. 
 Will laugh to flee away." 
 
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 For who would tiust the seeming sighs 
 
 Of wife or paramour? 
 Fresh feeres will dry the hright blue eyes 
 
 We late saw streaming o'er. 
 For plensure piist I do not grieve, 
 
 Nor perils gathering near ; 
 My greatest grief is that I le;,ve 
 
 No tiling that c'aims a tear. 
 
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 A>id now I'm in the world alone, 
 
 Upon the wide, wide sea : 
 But why should I lor others groan, 
 
 When none will sigh for me ? 
 Perchance my dog Avill whine in vain, 
 
 Till fed by stranger hands ; 
 But long ore I come back again 
 
 He'd tear me where he stands. 
 
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 With thee, my bark, I'll swiftly go 
 
 Athwart the foaming brine ; 
 Nor care what land thou bear'st me to. 
 
 So not again to mine. 
 Welcome, welcome, ye dark blue waves! 
 
 And when you fail my sight, 
 W^elcome, }0 deserts and ye caves! 
 
 My native Land— Good Night! 
 
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 175. Paramour, u-^d in the saiuu soiise as Icman \n line "7. 
 
 188 LONo KRK I COMB HACK AGAIN ; that is, much sooner than it is my purpose 
 toretumT epoetin his niisanthrupie mood attributes unfaithfu ness even to 
 the most faitliful of ani.nals. llo.ner's picture of Ar.nis, the do,, of Ulysses, who 
 recognizes his master after twenty years' absence, is in fine contrast. 
 
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 DHILDE HAROLD'S PILGllLMAGE. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 On, on the vessel flies, the land is gone, 
 And winds are nulo in Biscay's sleepless hay. 
 J^our days are sped, hut with the fifth, anon, 200 
 
 iNew shores dc^scried make every boson, gay ; 
 An(l Cintra's nionntain greets thorn on their'way, 
 And Tagus dashing onward to the derp, 
 His fahied golden tribute l)ent to pay ; 
 And soon on board the J.usian pilots leap, -^05 
 
 And steer 'twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see 
 VVhat Heaven hath done for this delicious land : 
 \\ iiat fruits of fragrance blush on everv tree ! 
 What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand ! 210 
 
 But nian would mar tlu-m with an impious hand. 
 And when the Almighty lift« his fiercest scourge 
 Gamst those who nu^st transgress his high command, 
 W ith treble vengeance will his hot shafts urge 
 C^aul's locust host, and earth from fellest foenien purge. 215 
 
 XVI. 
 
 ^^ hat beauties doth Lisboa first unfold ! 
 Her iiDage doating on that noble tide, 
 Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold. 
 But now whereon a thousand keels did ride ' 
 01 mighty strength, since Albion was allied, 220 
 
 And to the Lusians did her aid afford : 
 A nation swoln with igiionmce and pride, 
 Who lick yet loa'hc the hand that wnves'thc sword 
 losnve them from the wrath of Gaul's uns|)aring lord. 
 
 Sef not^'M"o88-:U4""'" '"'"' '" ''"""J^^^'. '^ ><l">'-t distunco ,lnvost „l^ Lisbon. 
 
 T.^i .wini'ov:ys:nd".r::;;ir "'"""'^^ ""^'•'■'^' '^^-'" ^'-' 'vi.-s.nts the 
 
 y>e:i^\.,n.::Jt^^^^^ r^''>''"-, '•'^'-"^■"- it situation has 
 
 l^rrtL.?i'w'V,.f''l?' ^^",. ■•''■''"••"• '.''"'t' c.nuncrdal alliance between Jiritain ami 
 22->. Nation- is in oppositinn wltli Lusians. 
 
 I 
 
 Thoi 
 
 Wl 
 
 U 
 
 er> 
 an 
 
 tu 
 
CITILDE HAKOLD'S PlLCllIMAdE. 
 
 11 
 
 200 
 
 205 
 
 eap. 
 
 ;io 
 
 land, 
 e. 215 
 
 220 
 
 1(1 
 1. 
 
 aiiie word 
 '1' l^isboii. 
 
 esoiits the 
 
 liitioii lias 
 iie Tuyus, 
 
 H„,"''" 
 I'itniii and 
 H; French 
 
 * 
 
 235 
 
 XVII. 
 
 But whoso cntei-eth within this town, -25 
 
 That, sheening far, celestial seems to be, 
 
 Disconsolate will wander np and down, 
 
 'Mid many things nnsightly to strange ee ; 
 
 For hilt and palace show like filthily : 
 
 The dingy denizens a'-e reared in dirt ; 230 
 
 Ne personage of high or mean degree 
 
 Doth care lor cleamiess of surtont or shirt ; 
 Thonghshcnt with Egypt's plague,nnkempt,unwashed,nnhnrt. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Poor, paltry slaves ! yet born 'midst noblest scenes— 
 Wiiy, Natnrc, waste thy wonders on such men? 
 Lo ! Cintra's glorious Eden intervenes 
 In variegated maze of mount and glen. 
 Ah me! what hand can pencil guide or pen. 
 To follow half on which, the eye dilates 
 Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken 
 Than these whereof such things the bard relates, 
 Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates ; 
 
 XIX. 
 
 The lu.rrid crags, by topping convent crowned. 
 The cork-tiees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep, 
 The riKHintain-moss by scorclnng skies imbrowned, 
 The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep, 
 The tender azure of the unruilled deep, 
 The orange tints that gild the greenest bcugh, 
 The torrents tiiat from cliff to valley leap. 
 The vine on high, the willow branch l)el(AV, 
 Mixed in one mighty scene, with varied beaiity glow. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Then slowly climb the many-winding way, 
 
 And frequent turn to linger as yon go. 
 
 240 
 
 245 
 
 250 
 
 v.x ^,nvT WITH FoYiM's VLAmK, Spoiled or doftU'L-.l with Icprosv, a disease 
 eon^u^'amun^VilL Sl.tiaui : and m.)st!y engendered through unelean personal 
 and national liahitb. ,1,1, ,„,„>, tli.^ 
 
 •241.24-J. The reference here i. prohably to Dante's J'arwhso alU.ough the 
 classical term I'll vsium is used. 
 
 "«Sd Note ?he effect of the alliteration and accumulation of epithets rapuUy 
 fullowin;; eaeh oUier in this stanza. 
 
12 
 
 CHiLDE Harold's pilgrimage. 
 
 From loftier rocks new loveliness survey 
 And rest ye at " Our Lady's house of ^voe ;" 
 Where frugal monks their little relics show, 
 And sundry legends to the stranger tell : 
 Here impious men have punished been, and lo! 
 Deep ni yon cave Honorius long did dwell 
 In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. 
 
 XXT. 
 
 And here and there, as up the crags von spring 
 Mark many rude-carved crosses near the path :' 
 let deem not these devotion's offering— 
 These aie memorial,^ frail of murderous wrath : 
 For wheresoe'er the shrieking victim hath 
 Poured forth his blood beneath the assassin's knife, 
 Some hand erects a cross of moldering lath ; 
 And grove and glen with thousand such are rife 
 Throughout this purple land, where law secures not life 
 
 X 
 
 xn. 
 
 255 
 
 260 
 
 265 
 
 270 
 
 275 
 
 On sloping mounds, or in the vale beneath. 
 Are domes where whilome kings did make repair • 
 But now the wild-flowers round them only breathe • 
 Yet rumed splendor still is lingering there. 
 And yonder to;vors the Prince's palace fair • 
 There thou to, Vathek ! England's wealthiest son 
 Once formed thy Paradise, as not aware 
 ^ When wanton Wealth her mightiest deeds hath done 
 Meek Peace voluptuous lures was ever wont to shun. 
 
 xxnr. 
 
 Here didst thou dwell, here schemes of pleasure plan 
 Beneath yon mountain's ever beauteous brow : '-,80 
 But now, as if a thing unblest hy Man, 
 ^'^^yj^'^'y tlwelling is as lone as thou ' ' 
 
 money and *; 100. 000 a vear is 1ih v/^ 1, r Ji^ k .. " '' f'>rtuno of a million in 
 
 written in h^eur^u ThJ\ul^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 entertained with ,reat ^Vl^^^^^^^^^^l^^S^lk^^^-^l^l^^ wa. 
 
 Swei 
 
 Wh( 
 
 Sin( 
 
 Wh 
 
 28! 
 
 of bi 
 Mar( 
 gene 
 29' 
 tern: 
 
CHiLDE Harold's Pii/iuiMAGE. 
 
 13 
 
 255 
 
 2 bo 
 
 I 
 
 265 
 
 270 
 
 275 
 
 Here giiint weeds a passnge scarce allow 
 To halls (leseri ed, portals gaping wide : 
 Fresh lessons to the thinking bosom, how 285 
 
 Vain are the pleasaunces on earth supplied ; 
 Swept into wrecks anon by Time's ungentle tide ! 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Behold the hall where chiefs were late convened! 
 Oh ! dome displeasing unto British eye! 
 With diadem hight foolscap, lol a fiend, 290 
 
 A little fiend that scofL incessantly. 
 There sits in parciiment rob arroycd, and by 
 His side is hung a seal and sable scroll, 
 Where bluzoned glare names known to cliivalry, 
 And sundry signatures adorn the roll, 295 
 
 Whereat the Urchin points and laughs with all his soul. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 Convention is the dwarfish demon styled 
 That foiled the knights in Marialva's dome : 
 Of brains (if brains they had) he them beguiled, 
 A.i.d turned a nation's shallow joy to gloom. 300 
 
 Here Folly dashed to esirth the victor's plume, 
 And Policy regained what arms had lost : 
 For chiefs like ours in vain may laurels bloom ! 
 Woe tc the conqu'ring, not the conquered host, 
 Since baffled Triumph droops on liUsitania's coast I 305 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 And ever since that martial synod met, 
 Britannia sickens, Cintra ! at thy name ; 
 And folks in office at the mention fret, 
 And fam would blush, if blush they could, for shame. 
 How will posterity the deed proclaim ! 310 
 
 Will not our own and fellow nations sneer, 
 To view these champions cheated of their fame, 
 By foes in fight o'erthrown, yet victors here, 
 Where Scomber finger points through many a coming year? 
 
 288-314. The hall wherk chiefs wkke late convened, etc. The Corveiition 
 of Cintra, by which in 1808 the French agreed Ut cvacuiite Portugal on oondit.joij 
 of being landed in France with their arms, was signed in the palace of the 
 Marchese Marialva. Its terms caused so great indignation in England that the 
 generals who signed it were tried by court martial. 
 
 290. A FiKND, Momus, the god of mockery, satire, and censure, here ironically 
 termed Convention. 
 
14 
 
 CHILDE HA Isold's PILGUIMAdK. 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 So deemed the Childe, as o'er tlio jnountiiins he 315 
 
 Did take liis way in solitary guise : 
 Sweet was the scene, yet soon he sought to Hee, 
 More restless than the swallow in the skies : 
 Though iiero awilc he learned to moralize, 
 For meditation fixed at times on iiim; 320 
 
 And conscious Koason whispered to despise 
 His early youth, misspent in maddest whim ; 
 But as he gazed on truth his aching eyes grew dim. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 To horse ! to horse ! he quits, forever (juits 
 A scene of i)oace, though soothing to his soul ; 325 
 
 Again he rouses from liis moping fits. 
 But seeks not now the harlot and the bowl. 
 Onwaid he Hies, nor fixed as yet the goal 
 Where he shall rest him on Ids pilgrimage ; 
 And o'er him many clianging scenes must roll 330 
 
 Ere toil his thirst fjr travel can assuagr, 
 Or he shall calm his breast, or learn experience sage. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 Yet Mafra shall one moment claim delay, 
 Where dwelt of yore the Lusians' luckless queen ; 
 And church and court did mingle their array, 335 
 
 And mass and revel were alternate seen ; 
 Lordlings and freres— ill-sorted fry I ween ! 
 But here the Babylonian wiioie hath built 
 A dome, where Haunts she in such glorious sheen, 
 That men forget the blood which she hath spilt, 340 
 
 And bow the knee to Pomp that loves to varnish guilt. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 O'er vales that teem with fruits, romantic liills, 
 (Oh, that such hills upheld a free-born race !) 
 
 320. Mkditatiox. The persorificatloii here assumed is substituted at line 326 bv 
 MOPING KITH ; Hiui the object of the abrupt call " to horse ! to horse !" is as if to 
 awaken iiiin from his reverie. 
 
 333-335. M.\KRA is an immense convent and palace of tfreat splendor, and is 
 
 termed the Escurial of Portuj,^al. Licklk.s,s queex refers to Oueen Maria, 
 
 whose nisanity ni 1789 necessitated a re^fency. 
 
 337. LoKDLiNos ANU KRKKEs ; contemptuously for lords and friars. Observe the 
 deepemng' of the uontemp* by the use of the epithet illsortedfry. 
 
 
 % 
 
 m 
 
■^ 
 
 CHILDE Harold's i'iuiuimai..':. 
 
 15 
 
 315 
 
 320 
 
 325 
 
 330 
 
 535 
 
 340 
 
 line 326 by 
 is as if to 
 
 lor, and is 
 ;en Maria, 
 
 bserve tlie 
 
 Wbei'Gcn to j^iize tlio eye with joyaunce tills, 
 Childe Harold wends througli uiiiny a pleasant place. 345 
 Thougli slnggards deem it but a foolish chase, 
 And marvel men should quit their easy-chair, 
 The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace. 
 Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air. 
 And lite, that bloated Ease can never hope to share. 35° 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 More bleak to view the hills at length recede, 
 And, less luxuriant, smoother vales extend ; 
 Immense horizon-bounded plains succeed! 
 Far as the eye discerns, withouten end, 
 Spain's realms appear wheroon her si -..'ierds tend 355 
 Flocks, whose ri, h fleece right well the trader knows— 
 Now must the pastor's arm his lambs defend: 
 For Spain is compassed by unyielding foes 
 And all must shield their all, or share Subjection's woes. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 Where Lusitania and her Sister meet. 
 Deem ye what bouiids the rival realms divide? 
 Or ere the jealous queens of nations greet, 
 Doth Tayo interpose his mighty tide? 
 Or dark Sierras rise in craggy pride ? 
 Or fence of art, like China's vasty wall?— 
 Xe barrier wall, ne river deep and wide, 
 Ne horrid crags, nor moimtains dark and tall, 
 Rise like the rocks that part Hispania's land from Gaul 
 
 360 
 
 36; 
 
 344. .lOYAixcE (Fr.Jo//o/if, joyful), pleasure. 
 
 348. Lkagi-e. Byron here and elsewhere uses the singular instead of the plural. 
 See 2d8. 
 
 354. WrrnorTKV. An old English form of without, now only used for its 
 quaintness, or for lengthening the nioiisnre in jioetry. 
 
 356. Kicii KLKKCK. The merino sheep, now widely scattered throughout 
 Europe, and constituting a great source of Australian prosperity, was originally 
 a Spanish breed. 
 
 360-377. The reference in these two stanzas is to the defenceless state of 
 Portugal for want of natural boundaries on the side of Spain, which was attackeil 
 by the French. Vet i.otwithstsxnding that a simple stream oft';n forms the only 
 landmark, a spirit of mutual animosity characterizes liie intercourse of the 
 peasants of the rival nations. IJyron, considering their endurance under 
 Wellington, modified his opinion of the Portugese " as the lowest of the low. 
 TayA. ' See line '203. 
 
 364. Sierras (Span., from Lat. scr7'a a saw), a jagged chain of hills. 
 
16 
 
 CUILDE HAROLD'S PILr;RIMA(;E 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 But these between a silver .areamlot glides, 
 And scarce a name dl^tinguislieth the hroolc. 370 
 
 Though rival iiiugdoiiis press its verchint sides. 
 Here leans the idly slieplierd on iiis crook, 
 And vacant on the rippling waves doth look, 
 That peaceful still 'twixt bitterest foenien How; 
 ¥ov proud citch peasnnt as the noblest duke : 375 
 
 VVell doth the Spanish hind the diirerence know 
 'Twixt him and Lusian slave, the lowest of the low. 
 
 xxxrv. 
 
 But ere the mingling bounds have far been passed, 
 Dark Guadiana rolls his power along 
 In sullen billows, murmuring and vast, 38o 
 
 So noted ancient roundelays among, 
 Whilome upon his banks did legions throng 
 Of Moor and Knight, in mailed sp cndor drest : 
 Here ceased the swift their race, here sunk the strong ; 385 
 The Paynim turban and the Christian ciest 
 Mixed on the bleeding stream, by floi>ting hosts oppressed. 
 
 xxxv. 
 
 Oh, lovely Spain ! renowned, romantic land ? 
 Where is that standard which Telagio bore. 
 When Cava's traitor-sire first called the band 
 That dyed thy mountain streams with Gothic gore ? 390 
 Where are those bloody banners which of yore 
 Waved o'er thy sons, victorious to the gale, 
 And drove at last the spoilers to their shore! 
 Red gleamed the cross, and waned the crescent pale, 
 While^Afric^s^choes thrilled with Moorish matrons' wail. 395 
 
 379-386. Dark Guadiana, the Anas of the ronians. Along its banks were 
 fought many of the sari-uinary conHicts between th'3 Moors of Granada and 
 Mo'frs'in 14!?i ^*'"«^'^"« "^ t"*^ »o>th. Ferdinand the Catholie expelled the 
 
 Wi?h^epuE8'''''' ^''*"" ^'' '*'''''^^^'''' "-"""dish, applied to short lively rhymea 
 387- i04 Refer to romantic incidents in the history of Spain, 714-737 A d 
 
 JSlf i^'f h«' "".tl?'.^ V"*-' ^'^^"'^ ''"^^"^ Cava or Florinda ('" ihe Helen "of 
 ftpain ), duu-iucf oi his heutenant. Count Julian of Andalusia the latter in 
 revenge went over to the enemy, and Roderick was deprived of his kingdom 
 Kf.'.",.?"; '^«'t>'°..^«^i«n of the royal fan.ily. maintained the independence ™f 
 
 tJ become k^ni't/fh^^ r.''"^''' I" ^T'^^^'^''^ ^"'^'"^^ *he Moors as ultimate^ 
 to Decome king of the Christian kingdom of Spain. Byron's Aao nf Rr-rmc', 
 and Scott's Vision of Don Roderick treat of the subject ' ^^"^ ''■^ Bronze 
 
 Wh 
 
 Wl 
 
 Re 
 
 4 
 
 Spi 
 
 4 
 
 ba 
 
 coi 
 
CHlLliE HAKOLD's l'IL(;UlM\<iE. 
 
 17 
 
 370 
 
 375 
 
 ed, 
 
 38o 
 
 ong; 385 
 ressed. 
 
 re? 
 
 390 
 
 pale, 
 ail. 395 
 
 Mnks were 
 ranada and 
 sxpelled the 
 
 ely rhynicB 
 
 x::xvi. 
 
 Teems not each ditty with tiie jjloriou.s tale! 
 Ah! 8uch,alas! the hero's amplest fate! 
 When granite moldors and wlien records fail, 
 A p('a.sa:'t'8 plaint prolongs his duhious date. 
 Pride! hend thine eyo from heaven to thine estate, 400 
 8to how the Mighty shrink into a song! 
 Can Volumt', T'llar, IMle preserve thee great? 
 Or mnst thou trust tradition's simple tongue, 
 When Flattery sleeps with thee, and History does thee wrong? 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 Awake, ye sons of Spain ! awake! advance! 405 
 
 Lo ! Chivalry, your ancient goddess, cries. 
 But wields not, as of old, her thirsty lance. 
 Nor shakes licr crimson plumage in the sKios : 
 Now on the smoke ot bhizing holts she tiies. 
 And speaks in thunder ih o u'ii yon eiiw'in i's roir : 410 
 In every peal she calls—" Awake! arise !" 
 Say, is her voice more feehle than of yore. 
 When her war-song was heard on Andalusia's shore? 
 
 xxxviir. 
 
 Hark ! heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note? 
 Sounds not the clang of conflict on the heath? 415 
 
 Saw ye not whom the reeking s»ber smote. 
 Nor saved your brethren ere they sank beneath 
 Tyrants and tyrants' slaves?— the tires of death, 
 The bale-fires Hash on high -.—from rock to rock 
 Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe : 420 
 Death rides upon the sulphury Siro, 
 Red Battle stamps his foot, and nations feel the shock. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 Lo! where the Giant on the mountain stands. 
 
 His blood-red tresses deep|ningjn^the sun, 
 
 ■^Ofi'T^Ivu^fiwn'Fr^T^f'iYtiter a knight or horseman ; Spanish caballeria. 
 Spanish mUilary 'fame and pride justified the poefs st.rnng appeal. 
 
 419. Calk. FIRES, si-nal fires, that indicated hnlp, aorrov/ , war. "The gloomy 
 bafe-flres hlaze no more."— Scott's Lay. 
 
 401 SiRoc F.. siroc; Ital. sirocco ; Span. .siVoco, a hot east wmd. 
 
 423 Lo I w.iKRETiiR Giant, that is Red Battle, which bold personification is 
 continued to the end of this stanza. 
 
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18 
 
 CIIII.DK IIAUOLD'S ML(J|{IM.V(JR. 
 
 
 hi 
 
 425 
 
 430 
 
 VVitli (k'jitli-.sliot glowing in lii« fiery liands, 
 And eye that (^coicIk th all it glams upon ; ' 
 Koftless it rolls, n(.w (ixed, and now anor.' 
 Flii.sliing afar,— and at lii;-! iron .'Vet 
 Destruction cowers, t(; mark what deeds are done; 
 For on this morn (line potent nations meet, 
 Tos-hod before his shrine the bio jd he d<>em8 mostawe^^t. 
 
 XL. 
 
 By Heaven ! It is a splendid sight to see 
 (For ono wlio hath no friend, no brother tiiere) 
 Their rival scurfs of jnixed embroidery, 
 Their various arms that glitter in the air ! 435 
 
 What gallant war-hounds rouse them from their lair, 
 And gnash their fangs, loud yelling 'or the prev ! 
 All joiu the cl-.ase, but h'w the triumph share ; ^ 
 The grave shall bear the chiefest prize away, ' 
 And Havoc scarce for joy can number their array. 
 
 4.1.0 
 
 XLI. 
 
 Three hosts combine to offe" sacrifice ; 
 Three tongues prefer strange orisons on iiigh ; 
 Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue Ikies ; 
 Tlie sliouts are France, Spain, Albion, Victory ! ' 
 Tliefoe, the victim, and tlie fond ally, 
 That fights for all, l)ut ever fights in vain, 
 Are met— as if at hoi>>e they could not die- 
 To I'eed the crow on Talavera's plain, 
 And fertilize tlie field that each pretends' to gain. 
 
 XLH. 
 There shall they rot—Ambition's honored fools! 
 Yes, Honor decl's the turf that wrap.s their clay ! 
 Vain K ^ -.phistry ! m these behold the tools, 
 
 445 
 
 450 
 
 430, For ON riiiH mokn tiiukk I'otknt V4iif>v« Mi/..n i- T ' ~ 
 
 has the hatti. of Tulavca in 1 Ll^: ami '1.^1 is ,.i .t''!'; '"^ ''' ^'"•' >'' «^ 
 writes as if he witnessed it ' '" I'l'tuic greater aniination 
 
 til FKS'si';;x" A^H?ov A^ U J'lw,;^::;';rf ''> "='"'-'^ - - 'ts faee. 
 
 ;s±'- - »'« '^^ <'-«'t;;:x::K\;^!^i!S'^s 
 
CHILDK HAUv)LI»'h I'lLGia.NLUiK. 
 
 ly 
 
 425 
 
 10; 
 
 430 
 
 435 
 
 lair, 
 
 4.1.0 
 
 445 
 
 450 
 
 tlif pi et 
 iiiiiiiition 
 
 ts face. 
 ! -'7th unci 
 'Ut 53,000 
 10 French 
 
 The hrokcn tools, Hint tyrants cast away 
 By myriads, when they «hue » > r»ave tlieir way 
 Willi human hearts— to wliat?- a 'lienni alone. 455 
 
 Can (lespcts conipiiss anuht thai hails their nway ? 
 Or eali with truth one span of earth their own, 
 Save tliat wherehi at lust they crmnble bone by bone? 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 Oh, Albnera! ^'lorious ticUl of jj;rief ! 
 
 As o'er thy plain tlio Pilgrim pricked his steed, 460 
 
 Who could l'orese«> thee, in a space so brief, 
 
 A scene whore minglinj? Iocs should boiisl and bleed ! 
 
 Peace to the perished! may the warrior's meed 
 
 And tears of triumph the=r reward prolong! 
 
 Till others fall where other chiel'tains lead 465 
 
 Thy name sliall circle round Hu ^[apiim throng, 
 
 And shine in worthless lays lh(> ' ' "•.I'.e of viansient song. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 Enough of battle's minions! let them play 
 
 Their game of lives, and barter breath for fame : 
 
 Fame that will sciircc reanimate their clay, 4/''^ 
 
 Thouj,'h thousands fall to deck some single name. 
 
 In soothe, 'twere sad to thwiirl their noljle aim 
 
 Who strike, blest hirelings! for their cimntry's good. 
 
 And die, that living might have proved her shame; 
 
 Peri 
 
 • bed, perchance, in some domestic feud, 
 
 475 
 
 Or in a narrower sphere wild rsipine's path pursued. 
 
 XLV. 
 
 Full swiftly Harold wends his lonely way 
 Where proud Sevilla triumphs nu.?nbdued : 
 Yet is she free— the spoilers wished-for prey ! 
 Hoon, soon shall Conquest's tiery foot intrude, 
 Blackening her lovely domes with v.mces rude^ 
 
 480 
 
 4-.d AUiCKRA. This l)attl'j, named from the S..amsl-. hamlet near whieh it wa 
 Val"«-^lt^ bMav. 1811, wasone-.f the nmst te.rihie stm-^les r.i the I'enmsular 
 Wa? T le F,."i>s'h Si.ani.h, a,ul Portu-e^e, under Oone.al l!eiesf..rd with the 
 lOTSoi 7 IXJO. compc'.k'l Uie French, e..nu.,r nded by Marshal Souk, to retreat wUh 
 
 *'"*' • ..,,., ///■.•-■/«( //,s <■! the Romans, stands "" *'■•• 
 
 478 Skvill.\. S))an.. Seville 
 
 Gr.ai'.ilquivir 
 
 It is snrronndoil by Mooris 
 
 ,h wails, and is one of the most intereat- 
 
 J: 
 
 isr Cities m 
 
 was* taken an 
 
 Spain. Mm-illo, the 
 
 d ra'.a^'ed by the Frene 
 
 atestSiianish painter, lived and died here. It 
 1, undCi Soult in 1810, and evacuated in 1812. 
 
 B ron pass 
 
 ied throu^di Seville in 1" >y. 
 
20 
 
 CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. 
 
 InevitiiV.le houv ! '(iainst late to strive 
 Where Desclation plants her famished brood 
 Is vaiM. or llion, Tyre, nu^bt yet survive 
 And Virtue vanquish all, and murder cease to thuve. 4«5 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 But all unconscious ot the coming doom, 
 The feast, the son-, the revel here abounds ; 
 Strange modes of merriment the hours consume, 
 X ; ' ed these patriots with their country's wounds ; 
 
 Z heve War's clarion, but Love's rebeck sounds ;490 
 
 Here Folly still liis votaries .nthrals ; 
 
 An.. younVeyeO l.cw,.„..» w.lk. l,er n,uln,ght rounds, 
 
 Girt with the silent crimes of Capitals, 
 Still to the last kind Vice clings to the tott'ring walls. 
 
 XLVII. 
 
 Not so the rustic-with his trembling mate 
 He lurks, nor casts his heavy eye atar, 
 Lest he should view his vineyard desolate, 
 Blasted below the dun hot breath of war. 
 Xo more beneath soft Eve's consenting star 
 Fandango twirls his jocund Castanet: 
 Ah monarch ! could ye taste the mirth ye mar, 
 Not in the toils of Glory would ye fret ; 
 The horse dull drum would sleep, and Man be nappy jet . 
 
 XLYIIL 
 
 How carols now the lusty muleteer ? 
 
 Of love, romance, devotion is his lay, 
 
 As whilome he was wont the leagues to cheer, 
 
 His quick bells wildly jingling on the w^vy • 
 
 Xo I as he speeds, he chants " Viva el Key . 
 
 And checks his s()ng^o_execrate^^^ 
 
 493 
 
 500 
 
 50s 
 
 ^'^r m'^.i^?'^"KATn.''TrlHbution of color to breath applies properly to 
 
 tlie' effect, blo-stc^l. j ,,,,,,^3 i,rou<,'ht by the Negroes into 
 
 500. Fasiunoo, Span., a <1"'^,^. ' , i,,„i,, Note the personification. 
 Spnnisl> America, thence. mpoi ted naoSpanv. ^,^^,^^^^J^, i,,,,^ Hve King 
 
 508. "Viva ku Km. *'„..,' siL/ish i.atriotir son«9. -Byron. 
 Fe.dinana '. is the chorus o most "^ * ,^^^> ''"'\,,J pVinee of Peace, so cai.tivated 
 ^ M9 OODOV. 1)0.1 Man.iel \^U^^ niised h h from the l;i.,g's body guard 
 
CHILDK HAROLD'S PILGIUMAGE. 
 
 21 
 
 1 ■(* 1 pl,■lrlr'^ 'in'l curse the (liiy ^ 
 
 Ana gcc-laoed Treu«.n .,'.""S I'""' ><" ^"l""^"'^'' J"> 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 O„v,.nl.m...lov,.l|.l^.i„, at distance crowned 
 
 Tells .Iwa ihe foe -'-'^■"''''"f'^^f;;'-* 'i ,,,0 bost, 
 Hei-e was the canip, tbe wateh-fl une an it 
 Here the l.oKl .— ^ ..o,n,e<l t - < -S^ ,"-' ■ 
 Sti,,tU.e.hen,a,.UitwU uunnp,,a^H 
 
 And points to yonder clitic, \Mncn 
 
 L. 
 
 And whomso'or along the p.th yon meet 
 
 Bear, in his cap the badge ot crnnson he ^ 
 
 Winch tells yon whon> to shnn and -horn to gieet 
 Woe to the man that ^vMl<s nu^ubhc MeNN 
 
 Withont of loyalty this token trne ; _ 
 
 Sharp is the knife, and sndden.ststK>k^ 
 AndLelywouldthea.lctoen.u uu^, 
 
 n snbtle poniards, wrapt ^'--l ^ ^^ .^ i^^^ 
 Conld blunt the saber's edge, or clear thecanno 
 
 LT. 
 
 At every turn Morena's dusky height 
 Sustain; aloft the battery's n-on load; 
 'UKl far as mortal eye can con.p^^^ ->^^ t. 
 The mountain-howitzer, the broken road 
 Th bristling palisade, the fosse o^W^ 
 The stationed bands, the never vacant Natch. 
 
 The magazine in rocky durance s owed. 
 
 The b;\ll-pilcd Jiyi i<i"id,^i^c o^^ ^^ T vF" 
 
 5J'- 
 
 ti- 
 
 fi 
 
22 
 
 CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. 
 
 LII. 
 
 Portends the deeds to come ;-but he whose nod 
 Has tumbled feebler despots from their sway, 
 A moment pansetli ere he lifts the rod ; 
 A little moment deigneth to delay : _ 
 
 Soon will his legions sweep through these their way ; 
 The West must own the Scourger of the world. 
 Ah' Spain ! how sad will be thy reckoning day, 
 When soar's Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurled, 
 And thou Shalt view thy sons in crowds to Hades hurled. 
 
 Lin. 
 
 And must they fall? the young, the proud, the brave', 
 
 540 
 
 54S 
 
 550 
 
 ./^llVl IIIVIOU wnv>j */ — , 
 
 To swell one bloated Chief's unwholesome reign 
 No step between submission and a grave ? 
 The rise of rapine and the fall o»' Spain ? 
 And doth the power that man adores ordain 
 Their doom, nor heed th- suppliant's appeal ? 
 Is all that desperate Valor acts in vain ? 
 And Counsel sage, and patriotic Zeal, , ^ , „i ^ 
 
 The Veteran's skill. Youth's fire, and Manhood's heart of steel ? 
 
 55S 
 
 LIV. 
 
 Is it f( r this the Spanish maid, aroused. 
 Hangs on the willow her unstrung guitar. 
 And, all unsexed, the anlace hath espoused, ^ 
 bung the loud song, and dared the deed ot war . 
 And she, whom once the semblance of a scar 
 Appalled, an owlet's larum chilled with dread, 
 Now views the column-scattering bay'net jar, 
 The falchion flash, and o'er the yet warm dead 
 
 560 
 
 565 
 
 Stalks with Minerva^s step-where_Ma^ might qujiket^^^^ 
 
 -^-^riTK.V.o^.TNOO, 'refe.s to Napoleon.— FKKm.E. DK.roTS ; U,at is. 
 
 feebler than liimself manifest application to Napoleon of the 
 
 te?^?''SnS':;t.;'^^' .m5^ t \^^L Um. .Vthe HU..S.— OAn.'. .ocesx 
 ''^^'^;t^:^Wn:i:':S"TlStS^^, the ensi.n of France, appropriately turned 
 
 "S^ "ii aI'I^" T"f^r;;MSs£^'voun, woman of twenty-two, spru.,^ 
 ,,^:;rS^ 'li;^"- 'nX si"e"S:^n\s tl,e>'Maia of San, ossa. ",. really 
 
 distinunis 
 
 after beinu' eonipe 
 
 ihed herself at the lieroii- defeiKc 
 
 ileil to rais? the nie-fe. ea 
 
 at 
 
 Seville, ranlis her anx 
 
 >ni. 
 
 it the first of heroines. 
 
 .059, 
 
 .500. HAVOS OS TIIK WILLOW 
 
 . of tiiat diV a-iiinst th.; Freneh. who. 
 ptured it in 1S09. Hyron, who saw her 
 
 to the loss of her lover ; the 
 
 In reference 
 
 willow hein 
 
 an'einhleni of sorrow 
 
 for lost love. See lines 675, 576. 
 
 Aklace, 
 
 a short sword or daiJ:!;er. 
 

 CHILDE HAUOLD'S PILGRIMAGE. 
 
 23 
 
 LV. 
 
 Ye who shall marvel when yr hear her tale, 
 
 Oh ' had you known her in her softer honr, 
 
 MuU d h'er black eye that mocks her coal black veil, 
 
 570 
 
 Heard her light, lively tones in Lady s bower, 
 S. en her long locks that foil the pau.ter s powei, 
 Her fairy form, with more than female grace, 
 Scarce wonld you deem that Saragoza's tower, 
 Beheld her smile in Danger's Gorgon face 
 ThiX closed ranks, and lead in Glory's foartul chase. 575 
 
 LVI. 
 
 Her lover sinks-she sheds no iU-timcd tear ; 
 Her chief is slain-she fills his fatal post ; 
 Her fellows fiee-she checks their base career ; 
 The foe retires-she heads the sallyn.g host : 
 
 Who can appe.se like her a lover s ghost ? 
 
 Who can avenge so well a leader s tall ? 
 
 What maid retrieve when man's flashed hope is lost 
 
 Who hang so fiercely on the ftymg Gaul 
 Foiled by a woman's hand, before a battered wall . 
 
 58: 
 
 590 
 
 Lvn. 
 
 Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, 
 But formed for all the witching arts ot love : 
 Though thus in arms they emulate her sons. 
 And in the horrid phalanx d.re to move, 
 
 'Tis but the tender fierceness of the dove. 
 Pecking the hnnd that hovers o'er her male ; 
 In softness as in firmness far above 
 Ren.oter females, famed for sickening prate 
 Her mind is nobler sure, her charms perchance a. gicat. 
 
 Lvni. 
 
 The seal Love's dimpling finger hath impressed 
 
 I .i-t tlvit chin whicl". bears his touch ; 
 
 Denotes how soft that cinn wiut, 
 
 Her lips, whose kisses pout to leave hen nest, 
 
 Bid man be valiant ere he merit such : _ „ 
 
 .vhichfoiwd the centre of the .L„i. ^^ _«.,«tho 
 
 jiutr 
 
 595 
 
 ..■ilied every l"^1'"l^l^;„,^ 
 
 poetical beauty „f the tuetai-hor. 
 
 liss. Note how the seeming par 
 
 mIox increases the 
 
24 
 
 CHILDE H.VUOLD'S riLGRIMAdE. 
 
 05 
 
 Her glance how wildly beautiful ! how much 
 Hath murbus wooed in vain to spoil hor cheek, 
 Wliich glows vet smoother from his amorous clutch ! 600 
 Who romid the North fw paler dames would seek? 
 How poor their forms appesir ! how languid, wan, and weak ! 
 
 LIX. 
 
 Match me, ye climes! which poets love to laud ; 
 Match me, ye harems of the land ! where now 
 I strike my strain, far distant, to applaud 
 Beautirs tiiat ev'n a cynic must avow ; 
 Match me those Houries, whom ye scarce allow 
 To taste the gale lest Love sh.ould ride the wind, 
 Witii Spain's dark-glancing daughters— deign to know. 
 There your wise Prophet's paradise we nn(], 610 
 
 His black-eyed maids of Heaven, angelically kind. 
 
 LX. 
 
 Oh. thou Parnassus! whom I now survey, 
 Not in the phrensy of a (h-eamer's eye, 
 Not in the fabled landscape of a lay, 
 But soaring snow-clad through thy native sky, 
 Tn the wild pomp of n.ountain majesty ! 
 Wliat marvel if I thrs essay to sing / 
 The Immblest of thy j)ilgrims passing by 
 Would gladly woo thine Echoes with his string. 
 Though from thy heights no more one Muse will wave her 
 wing. 
 
 LXT. 
 
 Oft have I dreamed of Thee ! whose glorious name 
 Who knows net, knows not man's divinest lore : 
 And now I view thee, 'tis alas ! with shame 
 That I in feeblest accents must adore 
 When I recount tliy worshipers of yore 
 
 615 
 
 ^ 
 
 ')2; 
 
 598 Wii,i.i.Y UKAITIKIL. The frequent recurrence of such phrases .s a 
 chan.kcristic .f Bvr..„'s poetry : this one is desci iptive of it. 
 
 601 HxKKM, Arabia hakam snared, or forbidden : the exclusive apartmei.ts of 
 eastern women. " T' "Zi was wi itton in Turl<e,v ' Hykon. 
 
 007 HonUKS, Pe!>u- m-Ri. b'afl< or beautiful eyed. Sec hue 611. 
 
 fii-'tm Oil Tiior P,U(NAssis: The apostroi.he to Mount Parnassus, written 
 at i Jd ClS^ the in.i.ress ,.f the etfect of the loca.ity upon so |'->et>call.v 
 
 susce tVbea nind as Byron's His .; nicisn, is su,.crseded 'V;^, \" "^ ! ',,' •^. 
 8 ice ■ devotional enntcnM'hvtion cf the und.NUi- j^lones of (.lecian loit, 
 I iest«l l^V the scenes round which clustcre.l its n...st sacred assoaations. 
 
630 
 
 635 
 
 640 
 
 CHILDE HAltOLD'S I'lLdlUMAOE. 25 
 
 I tremble, and can only bend tbe Unee ; 
 Nor raise my voice, nor vainly dare to soar, 
 But gaze beneatb tby cloudy canopy 
 In silent joy to tbink at last I look on Thee ! 
 
 LXII. 
 Happier in ibis tban niightist bards bave been, 
 Wbose fate to distant bomes confined tbeir lot. 
 Shall I unmoved heboid tbe hallowed scene. 
 Which others rave of, though they know it not ! 
 Though here no more Apollo haunts his grot, 
 And thou, the Muses' seat, art now tbeir grave, 
 Some gentle spirit still pervades the spot, 
 Sighs in the gale, keeps silence in tbe cave. 
 And glides with glassy foot o'er yon melodious wave. 
 
 LXIII. 
 
 Of thee hereafter— Ev'n amidst my strain 
 I turned aside to pay my homage here ; 
 Forgot the land, the sons, the maids of Spain ; 
 Her fate, to every freehorn bosom dear ; 
 And bailed tliee, not perchance without a tear. 
 Now to my theme- but from tliy holy haunt 
 Let me some remnant, some memorial hear; 
 Yield me one leaf of Daphne's deathless plant, 
 Nor let tby votary's hope be deemed an idle vaunt. 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 But ne'er didst thou, fair Mount, when Greece was young. 
 
 See round thy giant hnse a brighter choir. 
 
 Nor e'er did Delphi, when her priestess sung 050 
 
 The Pythian hymn with more than mortal lire, 
 
 Behold a train more fitting to inspire 
 
 '^5:638:iF,;Kin^Ks''8KAT. The favourite '^?;"" V;^^^,^'(^:;r,f ^^^^^f'Sphl 
 which i. also a ,.art of the ^^^^^^^ .f "m^;^.' whh A,.,llo, ihe 
 and a I its siinoiUKiinf^s, was vitud \V., ^ Th . ('•i^tiliin strcani. of whkh, 
 presidontof tlieir choir. -Mi.:i,oi.iors ^VA^ .. \:^; ; ' ; " ^,V,V^^^^^^^^^ f,.,- all 
 ^,e Castali.n fountain or s.,rin^ .s ^^^.^""^ ^t« w^e «acred to the 
 worshipers at the sacred shnnc ; hut se\tral othti suui 1 
 
 Muses. .. ,,„.;„, ...Hmiiissed the suhject too ahruptly, 
 
 039-J4;. OKTiiKK IIKRKAKTKR. Asit ''^^ ''',-, ''"^,^'^^^^^^^^ leaf from Dai-hnk's, 
 
 645 
 
 see Ovid, Met. I 
 
 050, 051. 
 adjuncts 
 
 DklI'HI. here idealized as 
 
 coniin-ehendinj;' 
 
 the temple and its 
 
 TllK I'YTIllAX IIYMS. t 
 
 houLdirhy Thucydides to have heen couipi 
 
 by Homer, narrates tlie hirth of Apollo 
 gave its nam<; Pi/thian ti> the oracle. 
 
 am 
 
 d the'shuing uf the Python, w 
 
 used 
 ■hich 
 
 
20 
 
 CIliLDE IIAIIOLIVS PILGRIMAGE. 
 
 660 
 
 665 
 
 The song of lovo, than Andalusia's maids, 
 Nuist in the glowing lap of soft desire : , , . 
 
 Ah : that to these were given such peaceful shades &55 
 As Greece can still bestow, though Glory fly her glades. 
 
 LXV. 
 Fair is proud Seville ; let her country boast 
 Her strength, her wealth, her site of ancient days; 
 But Cadiz, rising on the distant coast, 
 Calls forth a sweeter, though ignoble praise. 
 Ah, Vice ! how soft are thy voluptuous ways! 
 While boyish blood is mantling, who can 'scape 
 The fascination of thy magic gaze? 
 A Cherub-hydra round us dost thou gape, 
 And mold to every taste thy dear delusive shape. 
 
 LXVI. 
 When Paphos fell by Time-accursed Time! 
 The queer who conquers all must yield to thee— 
 The Pleasures fled, but sought as warm a clime ; 
 And Venus, constant to her native sea, 
 To naught else constant, hither deigned to flee, 
 And fixed her shrine within these walls of white ; 
 Though not to one dome circumscribed she 
 Her worship, but, devoted to her rite, 
 A thousand altars rise, for ever blazing bright. 
 
 Lxvn. 
 
 From morn till night, from night till startled Morn 67S 
 Peeps blushing on the revel's laughing urew, 
 The song is heard, the rosy -arlauil worn ; 
 Devices quaint, and frolics ever new, 
 Tread on each other's tubes. A long adieu 
 He bills to sober joy that here sojourns : 
 NaugVit interrupts the riot, though in lieu 
 Of true devotion monkish incense burns, 
 And love and prayer unite, or rule the hour by turns 
 
 67o 
 
 680 
 
 Is^r ANDAixsi.v. A fertile dit-t. ict in the south of Spain. 
 t)H(i l'\lMl(»s See uote. line ()1. , .„ i, 
 
 (5'.>-(S.{ ( Al)i/. line 
 
 l'h(^•nieian^5 
 
 about iUH) iic; and ;is to mor 
 
 al 
 
 niM 
 
 founded by the 
 r.neis. and niaritinie 
 
 activity, faithful to its origin, 
 but tailed in the attempt 
 
 The French tried to reduce itfrom IMo to IbU, 
 
 from tier. Kerb, notch, -i 
 
 heels ; hut heels only are here meant 
 
 08 
 
 1,' (18 J. In i-uai (")i- Tiu;i': dkvotimk. etc 
 
 superstitious obseive 
 
 ■rs 
 
 of the forms of religion. 
 
 Iccrated chilbl 
 votarie 
 
 lins or hacks in the 
 
 s of vice are often 
 
CHILDE Harold's pilgrimage. 
 
 27 
 
 685 
 
 690 
 
 695 
 
 700 
 
 LXVIII. 
 
 Tbfj Sabbath comes, a day of blessed rest : 
 What hallows it upon this Christian shore? 
 Lo ! it is sacred to a solemn feast : 
 Hark! heard yoii not the forest-monarch's roar? 
 Crashing tlie lance, he snulis the spouting gore 
 Of man and steed, o'ertlirown beneatli his horn ; 
 The tln-onged arena shakes witli shouts for more ; 
 Yells the mad crowd o'er entrails fresiily torn, 
 Nor shrinks the female eye, nor ev'n afiucts to mourn. 
 
 LXIX. 
 
 The seventh day this ; tlie jubilee of man. 
 London ! right well thou know'st the day of prayer 
 Then thy spruce citizen, washed artisan, 
 And sn Mg apprentice gulp tiieir weekly air : 
 Thy coach of hackney, whiskey, one-liorse chair. 
 And humblest gig through sundry suburbs whirl ; 
 To Hampstcad, Brentford, Harrow make repair ; 
 Till the tired jade the wheel forgets to hurl, 
 Provoking envious gibe from each pedestrian cluirl. 
 
 LXX. 
 
 Some o'er th.y Thamis row the ribboned fair. 
 Others along the safer turnpike fly ; 
 Some Kichmond-hill ascend, some scud to Ware, 
 And many to the sleep of Highg ite hie 
 Ask ye, Btcotian shades! the reason why ? 
 'Tis to the worship of the solemn Horn, 
 Grasped in the holy hand of Mystery, 
 In whose dread name botli men and maids are sworn. 
 And consecrate the oath with drivuglit, and^lancej^ll morn^^ 
 
 inlitiljitauts ot Luiidon. 
 
 705 
 
 70(). Ask 
 
 Vk' Bd'OTlAX suAnKs! This was w 
 
 consequently in 
 
 tilt' l)est situation tor askinji am 
 
 lanswcrinc; sucl\ a (jU' stion; 
 
 not as the b'irtliplacc of Pin 
 
 riUdle >vus propounded and solved- H\ u<>n. 
 
 "hu- buUisthe ^^vpinif of Bo^otUi, where the first 
 
 m 
 
28 
 
 CHILDE Harold's pilghimage. 
 
 LXXI. 
 
 All have their fooleries-'— not alike are thine, ^ 
 
 Fair Cadiz, rising o'er tlie dark blue &ea I 
 Soon as the matin bel! proclainieth nine, 
 Tliy saint adorers count tl.e rosary : 
 Much is the ViiuiiN teased to shrive them free 7' 5 
 
 (Weil do I ween the only virgin there) 
 From crimes ns numerous as her headsmen he; 
 Tiien to the crowded circus forth they fare : 
 Young, old, high, low, at once the same diversion share. 
 
 LXXII. 
 
 The lists are o; ed, the spacious area cleared, 720 
 
 Thousands on thousands piled are seated round ; 
 Long ere the tirst loud trumpet's note is heard, 
 No vacant space lor lated wight is found ; 
 Here dons, grandees, but chieMy dames abound, 
 Skilled in the ogle of a roguisli eye, 7^5 
 
 Yet ever well-inclined to heal tlie wound ; 
 None through their cold disdain are doomed to die. 
 As moon-struck bards complain, by Love's sad archery. 
 
 LXXIIL 
 
 Hushed is the din of tongues— on gallant steeds. 
 With milk-white crest.goldspur,and light-poised lance, 730 
 Four cavaliers prepare for venturous deeds. 
 And lowly bending to the 1 sts advance ; 
 Rich are their scarfs, their chargers featly prance : 
 If in the dangerous game they shine to-day. 
 The crowd's loud shout and ladies' lovely glance, 735 
 
 Best prize of better acts, thev bear away, 
 And all that kings or chiefs e'er gain, their toils repay. 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 In costly sheen and gaudy cloak arrayed. 
 But all afoot, the light- limbtd Mata<-lore 
 
 717 BEVnsMAN. AS brad, n prayer, one wlio prays for otluis. 
 
 7"3" N>'; tor no Lai'i:!) wkuit, bciutod fi'ilow. 
 
 7-^4" Doxs, Span. ((on. Irom Liit. (/ow/nirs. ii lord. - (.kAXDF.K, tepan. 
 (irandc. a iiobleniiin of tli<^ hifjlu^st nmk in Spain, 
 ' 7r{ Kk \TrA'. ninit)lv. by Wiiv of display. •,, , j 
 
 7.J.5. I LA 11,1. ny. j . ,,| ,,,,^ *;,,,,. ,j ^. ^^^ . t,,.,t ij. the orowd's loud 
 
 
 737. ALL T1L\T KIN(iS OK ( 
 
 shouts, etc. Note tlie irony in the comparison. 
 
 7;5i>. Matadouk. Si)an. ma 
 kill the bull at a bull-tij?ht. 
 
 <a(/or, muiderer, slayer ; the man apponited to 
 
ClilLDH HAUOLlVs riLGUIMAGE. 
 
 29 
 
 Stiiiuls in the center, eager to invade 74© 
 
 The lord of lowing henls ; but not before 
 The ground, with Ciiutious tread, is traversed o'er, 
 Lest aught unseen should hnk to thwart his speed : 
 His arms a dart, he figlits aloof, nor more 
 Can man achieve without the Iriemlly steed— 74S 
 
 Alas ! too oft condemned for him to bear and bleed. 
 
 LXXV. 
 
 Thrice socinds the clarion ; lo ! the signal falls, 
 The den expands, and Expectation mute 
 Gapes round the silent circle's peopled walls. 
 Bounds with one lashing spring the mighty brute, 75<^ 
 And, wildly staring, spurns, with sounding foot. 
 The sand, nor blindly rushes on his foe ; 
 Here, there, he points his threatening t:ont, to suit 
 His first attack, wide waving to and fro 
 His angry ^ail ; red rolls his eye's dilated glow. 75 S 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 S.idden he stops ; his eye is fixed : away. 
 Away, thou heedless boy ! prepare the spear; 
 Now is thy time to perish, or display 
 The skill that yet may check his mad career. 
 With well-timed croupe the ni/nble courses veer; jdo 
 On foams the bull, but not unscathed he goes ; 
 etreams from his fiank Lho crimson torrent clear : 
 He flies, he wheels, distracted with his throes : 
 Dart follows dart ; lance, lance ; loud bellovv,ing^tvi3eak his woes. 
 
 Lxxvn. /^-^' 
 
 Again he comes ; nor dart nor lance avail, 7^5 
 
 Nor the wild plunging of the tortured horse ; 
 Though man and man's avenging arms assail. 
 Vain are his weapons, vainer is his force. 
 One gallant steed is stretched a mangled corse : 
 Another, hideous sight ! unseamed appears, no 
 
 His gory chest unveil's life's panting source ; 
 Though death-struck, still his feeble frame he rears ; 
 Staggering, but stemming all, his lord unharm ed he bears. 
 
 ~-38 Now IS THY TIMK TO FEKISH, OK DISPLAY ; that is, to " do or die." 
 760. CuouPE. Fr. hind-quarters; here applied to the action of veering a 
 
 horse round on its hiud-leps. . „„„^„„«. 
 
 770. UNSEAMED. Note the figure here used, unseaming a garment. 
 
ao 
 
 CHILDE HAUOLD'k PIUntlMAdE. 
 
 LXXVIII. 
 
 Foiled, bleeding, breathless, furious to the last. 
 Full in the center stands the bull at bay, 775 
 
 Mid wounds, and clitJgiuK darts, and lances brast, 
 And foes disabled in the l)rutal fray : 
 And now th.e Matadores around him play, 
 Shako the red cloak and poise the ready brand . 
 Once more through all he bursts his thundering way— 780 
 Vain rage ! the mantle quits the conynge hand, 
 Wraps his tierce eye - 'tis past— he sinks upon the sand ! 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 Where his vast neck just mingles with the spine. 
 Sheathed in his form tlie deadly weapon lies. 
 He stops— he starts— disdaining to decline : 785 
 
 Slowly lie falls, amidst triumphant eric s. 
 Without a gri)an, without a struggle dies. 
 The decorated car appears— on high 
 The corse is piled— sweet siglit for vulgnr eyes- 
 Four steeds that spurn the rein, as swift as shy, 790 
 Hurl the dark bulk along, scarce seen in dashing by. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 Such the ungentVo sport that oft invites 
 The Spanish maid and cheers the Spanish swain. 
 Nurtured in blood betimes, his heart deliglits 
 In vengeance, gloating on anothei's pain. 795 
 
 What private feuds the troubled village stain ! 
 Though now one i)halanxed host should meet the foe, 
 Enough, alas! in humble homes remain, 
 To meditate 'gainst friends the secret blow. 
 For some slight cause of wrath whence life's warm stream 
 must flow. 800 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 But Jealousy has fled : his bars, his bolts, 
 
 His withered centinel, Duenna sage ! 
 
 And all whereat the generous soul revolts. 
 
 Which the stern dotard deemed he could encage, ■ 
 
 770. I'.KAST.O. Kng. burst, broken. ,, . ,. ^,. . ,. . 
 781 C()NVN(iK, ciinniiifi. skillful. So spelt in the Knif/s Quau'. 
 785. Dkclin'k: tluit i.s. decline the contest; sivpin .■ .^;« 
 80" Ckntiinm:-,. a niissi)ellin{? of sentinel, induced by the Span, cent nieia 
 DiKNN.v. Span., an ilderlv lady having charge of young ones. 
 
CIIiLU?: HAUOLU'S riLUUIMAGE, 
 
 31 
 
 Have passed to <1aikiies.s witli the vnnislicd age 805 
 
 Who late so free m bpaiiish girls were seen 
 (Ere War uprose in his volcanic rage), 
 With braided tresses hounding o'er the green, 
 While on the gay dance shone Night's lover-loving Queen ? 
 
 LXXXII. 
 
 Oh ! many a time and oil, h I Hirold loved, 810 
 
 Or dreamed he loved, since rapture is a dream ; 
 
 But now his wayward bosom was unmoveil. 
 
 For not yet had lie drunk of Lethe's stream ; 
 
 And lately had he learned with truth to deem 815 
 
 Love has no gift so grateful as his wings : 
 
 How fair, how young, how ^oft soe'er he seem, 
 
 Full from the lount of Joy's delicious «prings 
 
 Some bitter o'er the bovvers in bubbling venom dings. 
 
 LXXXHL 
 Yet to the beauteous form he was not blind, 
 Though now it moved him as it moves the wise : 820 
 
 Not that Philosophy on such a mind 
 E'er deigned to bend her chastely-awful eyes : 
 But Passion raves itself to rest, or Hies ; 
 And Vice, that digs her own voluptuous tomb, 
 Had buried long his hopes, no more to vise : 825 
 
 Pleasure's palled victim ! life's abhorring gloom 
 
 Wrote on his faded brow curst Cain's unresting doom. 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 Still he behold, nor mingled with the throng ; 
 But viewed them not with misanthropic hate ; 
 Fain would he now have ' led the dance, the song: 830 
 But who may smile that .su.ks beneath his late? 
 Naught that he saw his sadness could abate : 
 Yet once lie struggled 'gainst the demon's sway, 
 And as in Beauty's bower lie pensive sate. 
 Poured forth this unpremeditat k1 lay, 835 
 
 To charms as fair as those that soothed his happier day. 
 
 809. NiciMT's ;.<>VKK-LOVlN<i QUKKN. Vcnus. or Hesperus, tlie evening star- 
 
 813. Lktuk. Gr., forgetfulness;; the livor in Hades whose waters wlien 
 drank Cimsert torgetfulness of former existence. 
 
 817, 818. Tliesc two lines are a paraphrased translation of a passage trom 
 Lucretius. . . . 
 
 822. Cn.\.STici.Y-AWFUi,: that is. the chaste, awc-mspinng eyes. 
 
 82?. C.mn's uNiU';.sTiNii DOOM. See Genesis, iv. 11-15. 
 
 835. UNiMiE.MKDn'ATKi) LAY, from the introduction tr Scott's Lay. 
 
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32 
 
 CHILlJE HAHOLU'8 PlI,(HiIMA(;E. 
 
 TO INEZ. 
 
 I. 
 
 Niiy, Hinilo not at my siilU-n brow, 
 
 AlaH ! I cannot smile again ; 
 Yet Heiiven avert tliat ever thou 
 
 Hhoultl'st weep, and haply weep in vain. 
 
 840 
 
 And do.st thou ask what secret woe 
 1 hear, corroding joy and youth? 
 
 And wilt thou vainly seeic to know 
 A pang, ev'n thou nuist fail to soothe? 
 
 It is not love, it is not hate, 
 
 Nor low Ambition's honors lost, 
 
 That bids me loathe my present state. 
 And fly I'rom all I prized the most: 
 
 845 
 
 It is that weariness which springs 
 From all I meet, or hear, or see : 
 
 I'D me no pleasure Beauty brings; 
 
 Thine eyes have scarce a charm for me. 
 
 J- 
 It h that settled, ceaseless gloom 
 
 Tlie fabled Hel rew wanderer bjre; 
 That will not look beyond the tomb, 
 
 But cannot hope for rest before. 
 
 6. 
 
 What Exile from himself can flee? 
 
 To zones though more and more remote, 
 Still, still pursues, where'er I be. 
 
 The blight of life— the demon Thought. 
 
 850 
 
 
 855 
 
 860 
 
 K^i. Thk kahi.kp hkhukw wAvnKRKR. refers to the legend (\ the Wan- 
 dering .Jew, winch liiis formed tlie subject of much poetical .ad prose 
 litenit ire. Ahiisuorus. 11 shoemaker of .Jerusalem, refusing to allow Christ to 
 rest betore his 1 ouse when bearing the cross to Golgotha, ia coudemned to 
 wander ever the face of the earth tJU tlie judgment-day. 
 
 Noil 
 
 873- 
 87!) 
 being 
 180it. 
 884. 
 Ferdi 
 parte 
 peopl 
 
CHILUK H.VKOLD's PIL(;I{IMA(JK. 
 
 33 
 
 \0 
 
 7. 
 
 Yet (itluM's i;i|)t in pleiisiiri! seem, 
 And tiisti- ol iill tlmt I tot«,ike; 
 
 Oh ! may tl.ny mlIII ol tnuispoit dreiiin, 
 And ne'er, at least like nie, awake ! 
 
 8. 
 
 Tia-onKh many a clnne 'lis mine to go, 
 With many a retrospection curst; 
 
 And all rny solace is to know, 
 
 Wluite'er hetides, I've known tlie worst. 
 
 86: 
 
 ^5 
 
 ;o 
 
 55 
 
 56o 
 
 an- 
 ■oae 
 !tto 
 1 to 
 
 «75 
 
 What is that worst? Xay, do not ask 
 
 111 pity irom the searcli tbrhear : h-q 
 
 Smile on— nor ventnrt; to unmask 
 
 Man's heart and view tlie Hell that's there. 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 Adieu, fair Cadiz! yea, a lo'ig adieu : 
 Wlio may forget how well tliy waJIs have stooil! 
 Wiien all were c'nanging, th(»u alone wert true, 
 First to be free and last to he subdued : 
 And if amidst a scene, a sliock so rude. 
 Some native blood was seen tliy streets to dye, 
 A traitor only fell beneatii ihe feud : 
 
 Here all were noble, save Nobility I sso 
 
 None huggeii aconqueror's chain, save fallen Chivalrv '. 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 Sucii b(^ the sons of Spain, and strange hei fate I 
 
 They tight for Jreed(»m who were never Iree, 
 
 A IvingUss people for a nerveluBS stat); 
 
 Her vassals combat when iheir ehieltains flee, 885 
 
 True to the various slaves of Treacherv : 
 
 Fond of a land which gave them naught, Ijut lite, 
 
 87;?-8'''(j. Sec note on line fi5'.» 
 
 87!) A Tn.viTOi! ONLY i-Ki,i,. Alluding to Soliino. ^ .-ernor of Cii'iiz who 
 being ami. •'('(I of favoring the Frencli. wa,^ put to Ueuth bv a nioh i'u Mav" 
 180l(. ■ ■' ' 
 
 884. A KiNciLKss I'EOPLK. CMuirles IV. abdicated in favor of his >.on 
 Ferdinand Vll.. who wa- taken jjrisoncr hv tlie French: iiiui .lo'^eiih Hona- 
 parte. the nominee ol iii.s brotiiei' .Napoleon, wa.s resisted bv the iuntas uiA 
 people. • •' " '" 
 
34 
 
 CHiLDE Harold's pilgrimage. 
 
 Pride points the piitli thiit le;uls to Libeity ; 
 Back to the strnjirgle, hsifflcd in the ^^tiife, 
 War. War is still the cry, ' War even to the knife ! ' 890 
 
 LXXXVII. 
 
 Ye, who uould more of Spain and Spaniards knf)W, 
 Go, read whate'er is writ of bloodiest strife : 
 Wiiate'er keen Vengeance urged on foreign foe 
 Can act, is acting there against man's life: 
 From flashing scimiter to secret knife, 895 
 
 War nioldeth there each weapon to his need — 
 So may lie guard the sister and the wife, 
 So may he make each curst oppressor hle(Hl — 
 So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed I 
 
 LXXXVIII. 
 
 Flows there a tear of pity for tiie dead? 900 
 
 Look o'er the ravage of the reeking plain ; 
 Look on the hands with female slaughter red ; 
 Then to the dogs resign the unhuried slain, 
 Then to the vulture let eacli corse remain. 
 Albeit unworthy of Jhe prey-bird's maw; 905 
 
 Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, 
 Long mark the battle-tield with hideous awe : 
 Thus only may our sons conceive the scenes we saw ! 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 Nor yet, alas! thedrei. '... work is done ; 
 
 Fresli legions pour adown the Pyrenees: 910 
 
 It deepens still, the work is scarce begun, 
 
 Nor mortal eve the distant end foresees. 
 
 800. •• WAR KVEN TO lUE KNU'E." Palafox's answer to the French general 
 at the siege of Saragossa.— Hykon. 
 
 801-8W. Tlie struct tire of tlfls stanza is somewliat involved. It may be 
 naranlirasfd thus: Ye A^ho would know the condition of Si)ain and the 
 vengeful charucter of the Si)iiniards. read tlie bloodiest chapter in the history 
 of war, or private strile; for what ever means of retaliation the keenest 
 revenge has devised against the life ol an eneniv is there employed— from the 
 Hashing scimiter to the secret knife. Tlie .Sjianiard is not nice in the Q,hoice 
 of his means or weapons; so that it serves his supreme purpose of preserving 
 the honor of his witi and sister, or of acconiplishin ' the death of his cursed 
 foe. the most remorseless deed is justifiable in his sight. 
 
 '.100. Plows rHKUK. " there " niav here be meant as an introduction to tr.e 
 verb flows, hut is more like an a'dverl) of place, referring to Spain, or the 
 particular battle-field the poet has in view. 
 
 '.)0-. HiOEor.s Avvic. Note the attribute of form here a.^.iigned to awe. 
 012. TiiK DISTANT END I OKKSKEs. When Hyron wrote this, the Peninsular 
 War was still raging. It did not terminate till 1814. 
 
ciiiLDE Harold's pilgrimage. 
 
 35 
 
 Fnll'ii nations ^azc on Spain ; if freed, she frees 
 More than lier frll Pizarros once enchained; 
 Strange retribution! now Columbia's ease 915 
 
 Repairs th(^ wrongs that Quito's sons sustained, 
 While o'er the parent clime prowls Murder unrestrainetl. 
 
 XO. 
 
 Not nil the blood at Talavera shed. 
 Not all the marvi'ls of Barossa's Bght, 
 Not Ali)uera lavish of the dead, 920 
 
 Have won for Spain her well-asserted right. 
 When shall her Olive-Braneh be Iree from blight? 
 Wl en shall she l)reathe her from tlu; blushing toil? 
 How many a doubtful day shall sink in night, 
 Ere the Frank roliber turn him from his spoil, 925 
 
 And friedoms stranger-tree grow native of the soil! 
 
 xcr. 
 
 " And thou my iVieiul 1— since imavailing woe 
 Bursts from mv heart, and mingles witli the strain. 
 Had the sword laid thee with the mighty low. 
 Pride might forbid e'en Friendship to complain : 930 
 But thus unlaureled to descend in vain, 
 By all forgotten, save the lonelv breast. 
 And mix unbleeding wit.i the boasted slain, 
 While Glory crowns so many a meaner ci est! 
 Wha.t hadst thou done to sink so peacefully to rest ? 935 
 
 913. Fali-'n nations gazk on SPAIN. Tlie difl'erent nation? of the con- 
 tinent wlio fell under the sword of Napoleon watched the I'eninsular War 
 with great anxiety. 
 
 914. iKi.i. I'lZAKKOS. The brothers Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, the 
 stern comiuerors of I'eni in 1533 reduced the natives to a state of slavery. 
 
 915. yiCi CoLUMiUA. Tlie independence of Colombia, or New Granada in 
 South America, was prcchiimed in 1811. but not established till 1819, when it 
 
 united with (iuito and Venezuela in forming the republic of Colombia. 
 
 Quito's sons mav here mean Peruvians gen#ially. 
 
 919. Hakossa, one of the nu)st splendid victories of the Peninsular War. 
 achieved by (ieneral Graham with a few Uritieli troops in March, 1811, over 
 the French commanded by Victor. 
 
 9'^0. Aliuikha. See note, line 459. 
 
 9k!3. Hkkathk, used in the sense of rest, "draw breatli." — Blushino 
 TOiK niav refer to the sanguinary nature of the toils of war, or imply that the 
 political 'dissen>i()ns of Spain, which necessitated the toil, were something to 
 blush for. , , , , , , 
 
 920. Fkkkkom's STltANOliK-THKK. Trees of liberty were first planted by 
 the Americans as symbols of the giowth of freedom. The Freucli adopted 
 the idea in 1790 , , , , ,„. ^. , , 
 
 927 944. This pathetic lament for his friend the Honorable John V^ ingheld 
 of the Guards, who died of IVwr at Coimbru in ISll. proves tlr.it Byro?','s 
 Inditference was more assumed than real. 
 
36 
 
 CHiLDE Harold's pilgrimage. 
 
 XCII. 
 
 OV), known tlu' oarlirst, nnd esteemed the most! 
 Desir to a heart where nouglit was left so dear I 
 Thoufi;h to my liopeless days forever lost. 
 In dreams deny me not to see theo here ! 
 And Morn in secret sliall renew the tear 940 
 
 Of Consciousness awaking to her woes, 
 And Fancy hover o'er tiiy bloodless bier 
 Till my frail frame return to whence it rose, 
 And mourned and mourner lie united in repose. 
 
 XCIII. 
 
 Here is one fytte of Harold's pilgrimage : 945 
 
 Ye who of him may further seek to know, 
 Shall find some tidings in a future page. 
 If he that rhymeth now may scribble moe. 
 Is this too much ? stern Critic ! say not so : 
 Patience! and ye shall hear what he beheld 950 
 
 In other lands where he was dijomed to go: 
 Lands that contain the monuments of Eld, 
 Ere Greece and Grecian arts by barbarous hands were quelled. 
 
 945. Fytte, A.S fit, or fitt, a song. 
 1)48. MoK, O. Eng." poetical contraction for more. 
 
 %2. Eld. A.S. ^^/(/, old, still retained in the comparative and superlative 
 of old. 
 
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 HS 
 
 ?5o 
 
 ed. 
 
 mmt" 
 
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