...breaks forth. "... Let me not have worn This iron in my soul in vain — shall they not mourn ? ... A far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic fulness...verse. And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse ! That curse shall be Forgiveness. — Have I not — Hear me, my mother Earth I behold it, Heaven...

...shrink from what is suffer'd : let him speak Who hath beheld decline upon my brow, Or seen my mind's convulsion leave it weak; ' But in this page a record...verse, And pile on human heads the mountain of my corse 1 cxxxv. That curse shall be Forgiveness. — Have I not— Hear me, my mother Earth! behold...

...him speak Who hath beheld decline upon my brow, Or seen my mind's convulsion leave it weak; CXXXII But in this page a record will I seek. Not in the...disperse, Though I be ashes; a far hour shall wreak 1205 The deep prophetic fulness of this verse, And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse! That...

...Which shall not whelm me, let me not have worn This iron in my soul in vain — shall they not mourn? Not in the air shall these my words disperse, Though...And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse! That curse shall be Forgiveness . . . Have I not suffered things to be forgiven? (IV,! 3 1-135) Such...

...within the strange, the dread logic of posterity. CHAPTER 8 Byron's success Not in the air shall those my words disperse, Though I be ashes; a far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic fullness of this verse, And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse! (Byron, Childe Harold, book...

...forgiveness-curse upon his enemies and detractors. a far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic fullness of this verse, And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse! That curse shall be Fbrgiveness. — Have I not — Hear me, my mother Earth! behold it, Heaven! —...

...shrink from what is suffer'd: let him speak Who hath beheld decline upon my brow, Or seen my mind's convulsion leave it weak; But in this page a record will I seek. Noi in ihe air shall these my words disperse, Though I be ashes; a far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic...

...so we get the magnificent invective of stanzas 1 34 and 1 35. Here is the key part for my purposes: But in this page a record will I seek. Not in the...be ashes; a far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic fullness of this verse, And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse! That curse shall be Forgiveness....

...records of individual lives or of the spirit of past ages. Toward the end of Canto IV Byron announces, "In this page a record will I seek./ Not in the air...shall these my words disperse,/ Though I be ashes" (St. 134). Both he and Felicia Hemans leave records of themselves in elegiac meditations on the records...