[May 8, 1823. MS. More than one "Seventeenth Canto," or so-called continuation of Don Juan, has been published. Some of these "Sequels" pretend to be genuine, while others are undisguisedly imitations or parodies. There was, however, a foundation for the myth. Before Byron left Italy he had begun (May 8, 1823) a seventeenth canto, and when he sailed for Greece he took the new stanzas with him. Trelawny found "fifteen stanzas of the seventeenth cant. of Don Juan" in Byron's room at Mesolonghi (Recollections, etc., 1858, p. 237). The MS. 10gether with other papers, was handed over to John Cam Hobhouse, and is now in the passes sion of his daughter, the Lady Dorchester. The copyright was purchased by the late John Murray The fourteen (not fifteen) stanzas were printed and published for the first time in 1903.]

Bright through the world enlivening radiance pour,

But sleep within thy clouds, and fail to rise,

Heedless when Morning calls thee to the skies!

Then now exult, O Sun! and gaily shine,

While Youth and Strength and Beauty all are thine.

For Age is dark, unlovely, as the light Shed by the Moon when clouds deform the night,

Glimmering uncertain as they hurry past.

Loud o'er the plain is heard the northern blast,

Mists shroud the hills, and 'neath the growing gloom,

The weary traveller shrinks and sighs for home.

1806. [First published, Atlantic Monthy, December, 1898.]1

LINES TO MR. HODGSON.

WRITTEN ON BOARD THE LISBON PACKET.

I.

HUZZA! Hodgson, we are going, Our embargo's off at last;

Favourable breezes blowing

I

Bend the canvas o'er the mast.

[It is strange that Byron should have made two versions (for another "version" from the Newstead MSS., vide ante, pp. 78, 79) of the "Address to the Sun," which forms the conclusion of "Carthon"; but the second version (the MS. belongs to Harvard University) appears to be genuine. It is to be noted that Byron appended to the earlier version eighteen lines of his own composition, by way of moral or application.]

[Francis Hodgson (1781-1852), the translator of Juvenal, one of Byron's earliest friends. He was appointed Provost of Eton in 1840.]