"Did you look out? Is it _Medina_ or _Mecca_ that contains the
_Holy_ Sepulchre? Don't make me blaspheme by your negligence. I
have no book of reference, or I would save you the trouble. I
_blush_, as a good Mussulman, to have confused the point.
"Yours, B."
* * * * *
Notwithstanding all these various changes, the couplet in question
stands at present thus:--
"Blest as the Muezzin's strain from Mecca's wall
To pilgrims pure and prostrate at his call."
In addition to his own watchfulness over the birth of his new poem, he
also, as will be seen from the following letter, invoked the veteran
taste of Mr. Gifford on the occasion:--