Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A ROMAUNT: AND OTHER POEMS. BY LORD BYRON. L'univers est une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, FOR JOHN MURRAY, FLEET-STREET; WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, AND J. BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDIN- BURGH; AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN. 1812. PREFACE. THE following poem was written, for the most part, amidst the scenes which it attempts to describe. It was begun in Albania; and the parts relative to Spain and Portugal were composed from the author's observations in those countries. Thus much it may be necessary to state for the correctness of the descriptions. The scenes attempted to be sketched are in Spain, Portugal, Epirus, Acarnania, and Greece. There for the present the poem stops: its |