.M)TES TO ClifLDi: HAROLD.

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Here , son of Saturn! was thy fav'rite throne.

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The temple of Jupiter OK'mpius, of which sixteen co-lumns entirely of marble yet survive: originally there were100. These columns, however, are by many supposed tohave belonged to the Pantheon.

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And hear these altars o’er the long-reluctant Irina.

Stanza xi. line last.

The ship was wrecked in the Archipelago.

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To riue what Goth y and Tarh t and Time hath spared.

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At this moment (January 5 , 1S09), besides what hasbeen already deposited in London , an Hydriot vessel is inthe Piraeus to receive every portable relic. Thus, as Iheard a young Greek observe in common with many of Jiis.countrymen—for, lost as they are, they yet feel on this oc-casion—thus may Lord Elgin boast of having ruined Athens .An Italian painter of the first eminence, named Lusieri , isthe agent of devas tation ; and like the Greek finder of Ver-ves in Sicily , who followed the same profession, he has prov-ed the able instrument of plunder. Between this artist andthe French Consul FauveJ, who wishes to rescue the re-mains for his own government, there is now a violent dis-pute concerning a car employed in their conveyance, thewheel of which — I wish they were both broken uponit __ has been locked up by the Consul, and Lusieri haslaid his complaiut before the Waywode. Lord Elgin has