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Note 8, page 359, line 9.

The horsetails are pluck'd from the ground, and the sword, etc. The horsetail, fixed upon a lance, a pacha's standard.

Note 9, page 363, line 10.

And since the day, when in the strait, etc.

In the naval battle at the mouth of the Dardanelles, between the Venetians and the Turks.

Note 10, page 372, line 7.

The jackal's troop, in gather'd cry, etc.

I believe I have taken a poetical licence to transplant the jackal from Asia. In Greece I never saw nor heard these animals; but among the ruins of Ephesus I have heard them by hundreds. They haunt ruins, and follow armies.

THE

PRISONER OF CHILLON.

A FABLE.

SONNET ON CHILLON.

ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart-
The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-

To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place,

And thy sad floor an altar-for 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace

Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard!'-May none those marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God.