Note gv — THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS.[124]
Reading edition
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Behold a wilderness and call it peace,—[MS. erased.] Look round our earth and lo! where battles cease, "Behold a Solitude and call it" peace.—[MS.] or, Mark even where Conquest's deeds of carnage cease She leaves a solitude and calls it peace.—[November 21, 1813].
[For the final alteration to the present text, see letter to Murray of November 24, 1813.]