BYRON AND GREECE BY HAROLD SPENDER "Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, JOHN MILTON, LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 21578 NOTE By the courtesy of Mr. John Murray I have adopted the text of the great classical edition of Byron's works, first published in 1903, under the editorship of Messrs. Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Rowland E. Prothero (Lord Ernle), by John Murray: a splendid edition of Byron's prose and verse in thirteen volumes. I have preserved a few of Mr. Coleridge's notes, and always marked them "C." I have also retained a certain number of Byron's voluminous notes, and marked them "B"; my own notes are, as a rule, unmarked. I have chosen the letters from those published in the above edition, and added a selection from those published in the two volumes of "Lord Byron's Correspondence," published in 1922, and edited by Mr. John Murray. Sir John Stavridi, that true friend of both England and Greece, suggested the idea of this book, and has proved throughout its most constant friend and godfather. H. S. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Second Canto. Stanzas composed during a Thunderstorm Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian Gulf The spell is broke, the charm is flown! Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus Fragment from the "Monk of Athos Translation of the Famous Greek War Song "Don Juan " 198 |