oured flight

About the taper's flame at evening hour,

rose.

1895 14th

Page 15.

Throughout this varied and eternal world,

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The Revolt of Islam.

To restore the text of Laon and Cythna it will be necessary to make the following changes in The Revolt of Islam. At the close of Preface, p. 99, add as follows:

In the personal conduct of my Hero and Heroine, there is one circumstance which was intended to startle the reader from the trance of ordinary life. It was my object to break through the crust of those outworn opinions on which established institutions depend. I have appealed therefore to the most universal of all feelings, and have endeavoured to strengthen the moral sense, by forbidding it to waste its energies in seeking to avoid actions which are only crimes of convention. It is because there is so great a multitude of artificial vices that there are so few real virtues. Those feelings alone which are benevolent or malevolent, are essentially good or bad. The circumstance of which I speak was introduced, however, merely to accustom men to that charity and toleration which the exhibition of a practice widely differing from their own has a tendency to promote.' Nothing indeed can be more mischievous than many actions, innocent in themselves, which might bring down upon individuals the bigoted contempt and rage of the multitude."

P. 118, c. II. st. xxi. l. 1:

"I had a little sister, whose fair eyes P. 119, c. II. st. xxv. l. 2:

"To love in human life, this sister sweet,"

1 The sentiments connected with and characteristic of this circumstance have no personal reference to the Writer. [Shelley's note.]

P. 124, c. III. st. i. l. 1: "What thoughts had sway over my sister's slumber"

P. 124, C. III. st. i. 1. 3:

"As if they did ten thousand years outnumber"

P. 137, c. IV. st. xxx. 1. 6:

"And left it vacant-'twas her brother's face-"

P. 147, c. v. st. xlvii. 1. 5:

"I had a brother once, but he is dead!-" P. 156, c. vI. st. xxiv. 1. 8:

"My own sweet sister looked), with joy did quail,"

P. 158, c. VI. st. xxxi. 1. 6:

"The common blood which ran within our frames,"

P. 159, C. VI. st. xxxix. II. 6-9:

"With such close sympathies, for to each other Had high and solemn hopes, the gentle might

Of earliest love, and all the thoughts which smother

Cold Evil's power, now linked a sister and a brother."

P. 159, c. VI. st. xl. l. 1:

"And such is Nature's modesty, that those " P. 171, c. VIII. st. iv. 1. 9:

"Dream ye that God thus builds for man in solitude?"

P. 172, c. VIII. st. v. l. 1:

"What then is God? Ye mock yourselves and give"

P. 172, C. VIII. st. vi. l. 1: "What then is God? sophist stood

"

P. 172, C. VIII. st. vi. 11. 8, 9:

Some moonstruck

"And that men say God has appointed Death On all who scorn his will to wreak immortal wrath."

P. 172, C. VIII. st. vii. ll. 1-4:

"Men say they have seen God, and heard from God,

Or known from others who have known such things,

And that his will is all our law, a rod

To scourge us into slaves-that Priests and Kings

P. 172, C. VIII. st. viii. l. 1:

"And it is said, that God will punish wrong;"

P. 172, C. VIII. st. viii. ll. 3, 4:

"And his red hell's undying snakes among Will bind the wretch on whom he fixed a stain "

P. 173, C. VIII. st. xiii. ll. 3, 4:

"For it is said God rules both high and low,

And man is made the captive of his brother;

P. 179, C. IX. st. xiii. 1. 8:

"To curse the rebels. To their God did they"

P. 179, C. IX. st. xiv. l. 6:

"By God, and Nature, and Necessity."

P. 180, c. IX. st. xv. The stanza contains ten lines-ll. 4-7 as follows:

"There was one teacher, and must ever be, They said, even God, who, the necessity Of rule and wrong had armed against mankind,

His slave and his avenger there to be;"

P. 180, c. IX. st. xviii. ll. 3-6:

And Hell and Awe, which in the heart of man Is God itself; the Priests its downfall knew, As day by day their altars lovelier grew, Till they were left alone within the fane;" P. 188, c. x. st. xxii. 1. 9:

"On fire! Almighty God his hell on earth has spread!"

P. 189, c. x. st. xxvi. 11. 7, 8:

"Of their Almighty God, the armies wind In sad procession: each among the train." P. 190, c. x. st. xxviii. l. 1:

"O'God Almighty! thou alone hast power." P. 190, c. x. st. xxxi. l. 1:

"And Oromaze, and Christ, and Mahomet." P. 190, c. x. st. xxxii. l. 1:

"He was a Christian Priest from whom it

came

"

P. 190, c. x. st. xxxii. l. 4:

"To quell the rebel Atheists; a dire guest P. 191, c. x. st. xxxii. 1. 9:

"To wreak his fear of God on vengeance on mankind"

P. 191, c. x. st. xxxiv. ll. 5, 6:
"His cradled Idol, and the sacrifice

Of God to God's own wrath

creed"

P. 191, c. x. st. xxxv. l. 9:

that Islam's

"And thrones, which rest on faith in God, nigh overturned."

P. 192, c. x. st. xxxix. l. 4:

"Of God may be appeased." He ceased, and they"

P. 192, C. X. st. xl. l. 5:

"With storms and shadows girt, sate God, alone,"

P. 193, C. X. st. xliv. 1. 9:

"As 'hush! hark! Come they yet? God, God, thine hour is near !'

P. 193, c. x. st. xlv. 1. 8:

"Men brought their atheist kindred to ap

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rains down

Shelley's edition has "reigns down," which Mr. Forman defends.

Page 273.

Which in the winds and on the waves doth

move,

The word and, introduced here by Mr. Rossetti, is wanting in Shelley's edition.

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And clung to it; tho' under my wrath's

night

Shelley's edition reads "wrath's might." Mrs. Shelley made the correction.

life, doth move,