You wanted some reflections, and I send you per Selim (see his speech in Canto 2d, page 46), eighteen lines in decent couplets, of a pensive, if not an ethical, tendency. One more revise—positively the last, if decently done—at any rate the penultimate. Mr. Canning’s approbation (if he did approve) I need not say makes me proud*. As to printing, print as you will and how you will—by itself, if you like; but let me have a few copies in sheets.
“You must pardon me once more, as it is all for your good: it must be thus—
“He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. |
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“Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease,
He makes a solitude, and calls it—peace.”
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