![]() ![]() ![]() This working draft almost certainly represents Byron's first thoughts and is in this sense a composing, rather than revising, draft. ![]() ![]() That when Ambition bows – 'tis only to his Starġ page, on a sheet of paper watermarked with a crescent with an aurora over the figure '4' standing above the initials 'H R', originally folded two ways as if to form an 8vo letter-packet, guard at left-hand edge, light overall time-staining, trace of small tape-stain at foot, but overall in sound and still attractive condition, professionally de-acidified, backed and restored, in a twentieth-century morocco slipcase, 4to, Ī LONG-LOST DRAFT FOR CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE, WRITTEN BY BYRON AT THE VILLA DIODATI DURING THE WEEKEND OF 14-16 JUNE, WHEN THE SHELLEYS WERE STAYING AND MARY BEGAN WRITING FRANKENSTEIN. If in your bright leaves we would read the fateĪnd claim a kindred with you – for Ye are Ye Stars! – which are the poetry of Heaven – Autograph draft of Stanza 88 of Canto 3 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, comprising nine lines, with the concluding couplet rewritten during the course of composition, currente calamo, reading in its final version: ![]()
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