‘Mine eyes [] like two ever-bleeding wounds’

Written neatly in Nbk 12 at the top of the recto of a leaf evidently damaged by moisture since the ink has run in several words, these lines were probably drafted in the late summer or early autumn of 1819. They appear to be based on the second messenger's account of Oedipus blinding himself in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus 1276–9: https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315847863/6b737325-8a05-4f28-8bda-2a7f2a417d8f/content/fig226_20_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>

(‘the bleeding eyeballs soaked his cheeks, and did not cease to drip [sending forth sluggish drops of gore, but all at once a dark shower of blood came down like hail].’)