But when I gain the home without a friend, temos; And press the uneasy couch where none attend, Thy darling form shall seem to hover nigh, And hush the groan of life's last agony ! For 440 "Farewell! when strangers lift thy father's bier, Who then will soothe thy grief, when mine is o'er? Who will protect thee, helpless Ellenore } 450 Shall secret scenes thy filial sorrows hide, Scorn'd by the world, to factious guilt allied? Ah! no; Inspiring thought of rapture yet to be, The tears of love were hopeless, but for thee! If in that frame no deathless spirit dwell, 453 If that faint murmur be the last farewell! 460 If Fate unite the faithful but to part, Why is their memory sacred to the heart? Why does the brother of my childhood seem 'Restor❜d a while in every pleasing dream? Why do I joy the lonely spot to view, By artless friendship bless'd when life was new ? Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began-but not to fade. When all the sister planets have decay'd; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below; Thou, undismay'd, shalt o'er the ruins smile, And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile ! 465 470 NOTES. ON PART I. NOTE a. And such thy strength-inspiring aid that bore The hardy Byron to his native shore. THE following picture of his own distress, given by BYRON in his simple and interesting narrative, justifies the description in page 10. After relating the barbarity of the Indian cacique to his child, he proceeds thus." A day or two after we put to "sea again, and crossed the great bay I mentioned we had * been at the bottom of when we first hauled away to the “westward." The land here was very low and sandy, and something like the mouth of a river which discharged it"self into the sea, and which had been taken no notice of "by us before, as it was so shallow that the Indians were "obliged to take every thing out of their canoes, and carry "it over land. We towed up the river four or five leagues, " and then took into a branch of it that ran first to the "eastward, and then to the northward: here it became "much narrower, and the stream excessively rapid, so "that we gained but little way, though we wrought very "hard. At night we landed upon its banks, and had a most uncomfortable lodging, it being a perfect swamp; "and we had nothing to cover us, though it rained exces"sively. The Indians were little better off than we, as "there was no wood here to make their wigwams; so that "all they could do was to prop up the bark, which they carry in the bottom of their canoes, and shelter them"selves as well as they could to the leeward of it. Know "ing the difficulties they had to encounter here, they had |