To him who with his inmost heart hath struggled, Long wont with fate and deepest woes to war?

May he be happy!—thus himself esteeming,
He well might count himself a favoured one!
By his loved Muses all his sorrows banish'd,

And he self-known,-e'en as to me he 's known !"

"These lines arrived at Genoa, but found him not. This excellent friend had already sailed; but, being driven back by contrary winds, he landed at Leghorn, where this effusion of my heart reached him. On the eve of his departure, July 23d, 1823, he found time to send me a reply, full of the most beautiful ideas and the divinest sentiments, which will be treasured as an invaluable testimony of worth and friendship among the choicest documents which I possess.

"What emotions of joy and hope did not that paper once excite!-but now it has become, by the premature death of its noble writer, an inestimable relic, and a source of unspeakable regret; for it ag gravates, to a peculiar degree in me, the mourning and melancholy that pervade the whole moral and poetical world,―in me, who looked forward (after the success of his great efforts) to the prospect of being blessed with the sight of this master-spirit of the age,-this friend so fortunately acquired; and of having to welcome, on his return, the most humane of conquerors.

“But still I am consoled by the conviction, that his country will at once awake, and shake off, like a troubled dream, the partialities, the prejudices, the injuries,

and the calumnies with which he has been assailed, that these will subside and sink into oblivion, that she will at length universally acknowledge that his frailties, whether the effect of temperament, or the defect of the times in which he lived, (against which even the best of mortals wrestle painfully,) were only momentary, fleeting, and transitory; whilst the imperishable greatness to which he has raised her now and for ever remains, and will remain, illimitable in its glory, and incalculable in its consequences. Certain it is, that a nation who may well pride herself on so many great sons, will place Byron, all radiant as he is, by the side of those who have done most honour to her name."

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