[ANOTHER VERSION.] ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS.' [or Cæsar's DISCOVERY OF C. I. AND H. 8. IN YE SAME VAULT.] FAMED for their civil and domestic quarrels ICH DIEN. FROM this emblem what variance your motto evinces, For the Man is his country's-the Arms are the Prince's! ? 1814. [From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. A. H. Hallam Murray, now for the first time printed.] 1. [From an autograph MS. in the possession of the Hon. Mrs. Norbury. The first wrapper has written upon it, "The original Impromptu within is in the handwriting of the noble author Lord Byron, given to Mr. Norbury [private secretary to Lord Granville] by Mr. Dallas, his Lordship's valued relative." Second wrapper, "Autograph of Lord Byron-tres précieux." Third (outside) wrapper, "Autographe célèbre de Lord Byron."] [Πηλὸν αἵματι πεφυραμένον. 2. "Clay kneaded with blood." Suetonius, in Tiberium, cap. 57.] CONDOLATORY ADDRESS PRINCE ΤΟ SARAI COUNTESS OF JERSEY, ON THE WHEN the vain triumph of the imperial lord, If thus, fair Jersey, our desiring gaze Search for thy form, in vain and mute amaze, Bright though they be, thine own had rendered less : 10 20 1. ["The gentlemen of the Champion, and Perry, have got hold (I know not how) of the condolatory Address to Lady Jersey on the picture-abduction by our Regent, and have published them— with my name, too, smack-without even asking leave, or inquiring whether or no! Damn their impudence, and damn every thing. It has put me out of patience, and so, I shall say no more about it."Letter to Moore, August 3, 1814, Letters, 1899, iii. 118. For Byron's letter to Lady Jersey, of May 29, 1814, and a note from her with reference to a lost (?) copy of the verses, vide ibid., p. 85. Mrs. Anne Mee (1775?-1851) was a miniature-painter, who was employed by the Prince Regent to take the portraits of fashionable beauties.] 2. [Compare Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza lix. line 3, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 374, note 2.] That tasteless shame be his, and ours the grief, What can his vaulted gallery now disclose? 30 Which shades, yet shows that forehead more than fair! Each glance that wins us, and the life that throws A spell which will not let our looks repose, But turn to gaze again, and find anew May 29, 1814. [First published in The Champion, July 31, 1814.] 40 50 1. [See Conversations . . . with the Countess of Blessington, 1834, p. 50.] ... |