CXLI. The Moslem orphan went with her protector, For she was homeless, houseless, helpless: all Her friends, like the sad family of Hector, Had perished in the field or by the wall: Her very place of birth was but a spectre Of what it had been; there the muezzin's call To prayer was heard no more!—And Juan wept, And made a vow to shield her, which he kept. END OF CANTO VIII. NOTES TO CANTO VIII. Note 1, page 385, stanza vui. All sounds it pierceth, « Allah! Allah! Hu! Allah Hu! is properly the war cry of the Mussulmans, and they dwell long on the last syllable, which gives it a very wild and peculiar effect. Note 2, page 386, stanza ix. But thy' most dreaded instrument WORDSWORTH's, Thanksgiving Ode. 'To wil, the Deity's; this is perbaps as pretty a pedigree for Murder as ever was found out by Garter King at Arms --- What would have best said, had any free-spoken people discovered such a lineage! Note 3, page 389, stanza xviii. Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose. A fact; see the Waterloo Gazettes. I recollect remarking at the time to a friend :-« There is fame! a man is killed, his name is Grose, and they print it Grove.» I was at college with the deceased, who was a very amiable and clever man, and his society in great request for his wit, gaiety, and chansons à boire?» Note 4, page 390, stanza xxIII. As any other notion, and not national ;) — |