"Tuesday evening, Nov. 30. 1813.
"For the sake of correctness, particularly in an errata page, the
alteration of the couplet I have just sent (half an hour ago) must
take place, in spite of delay or cancel; let me see the _proof_
early to-morrow. I found out _murmur_ to be a neuter _verb_, and
have been obliged to alter the line so as to make it a substantive,
thus--
"The deepest murmur of this lip shall be
No sigh for safety, but a prayer for thee!