Editorial note — NOTICES OF THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON. (continued 4)
Reading edition
[Footnote 1: By John Williams, Esq.—The following translation of this inscription will not be unacceptable to my readers:—
"Not length of life—not an illustrious birth, Rich with the noblest blood of all the earth;— Nought can avail, save deeds of high emprize, Our mortal being to immortalise. "Sweet child of song, thou deepest!—ne'er again Shall swell the notes of thy melodious strain: Yet, with thy country wailing o'er thy urn, Pallas, the Muse, Mars, Greece, and Freedom mourn." H.H. JOY.]