While freedom's form beside her roves,
Majestic, through the twilight groves,
And calls her heroes round.

The sixth stanza had instead of 'unknown.' eighth stanzas were not ninth stanza, instead of, 'If weak to soothe so soft a heart,' the reading was, 'If drawn with all a lover's art.' Many variations I have forgotten. Dr. Warton, my brother, has a few fragments of some other odes, but too loose and imperfect for publication, yet containing traces of high imagery. In the Ode to Pity, the idea of a Temple of Pity, of its situation, construction, and groups of painting with which its walls were decorated, was borrowed from a poem, now lost, entitled the Temple of Pity, written by my brother, while he and Collins were school-fellows at Winchester College.

'untaught' in the first line,

The present seventh and in the manuscript. In the

In illustration of what Dr. Johnson has related, that during his last malady he was a great reader of the Bible, I am favoured with the following anecdote from the Reverend Mr. Shenton, Vicar of St. Andrew's, at Chichester, by whom Collins was buried: 'Walking in my vicarial garden one Sunday evening, during Collins's last illness, I heard a female (the servant, I suppose) reading the Bible in his chamber. Mr. Collins had been accustomed to rave much, and to make great moanings; but while she was reading, or rather attempting to read, he was not only silent but attentive likewise, correcting her mistakes, which indeed were very frequent, through the whole of the twenty-seventh.

chapter of Genesis.' I have just been informed, from undoubted authority, that Collins had finished a Preliminary Dissertation to be prefixed to his History of the Restoration of Learning, and that it was written with great judgment, precision, and knowledge of the subject. T. W.

In Georgia's Land, where Tefflis' Tow'rs are seen

In silent Horror o'er the Desart-Waste

In yonder Grave a Druid lies

O Thou by Nature taught

O Thou, the Friend of Man assign'd
O Thou, who bad'st thy Turtles bear
O Thou, who sit'st a smiling Bride
Thou, to whom the World unknown
To fair Fidele's grassy tomb

When Music, Heav'nly Maid, was young
When Phoebe form'd a wanton smile
While, lost to all his former Mirth

While, own'd by You, with Smiles the Muse surveys
Who shall awake the Spartan Fife

Ye curious hands, that hid from vulgar eyes
Ye Persian Maids, attend your Poet's Lays
Young Damon of the vale is dead

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¶ Poetry: Reproductions of Original

Editions

BROWNING. Men and Women, 1855. The two volumes

in one.

BURNS. The Kilmarnock Edition, 1786.

type-facsimile.

COLERIDGE & WORDSWORTH.

1798. Edited by H. LITTLEdale.

Reprinted in

Lyrical Ballads,

COLLINS. Poems. With facsimile title-pages, three illustrations, and a Memoir by CHRISTOPHER Stone.

GRAY. Poems, 1768. Reprinted in type-facsimile, with

four illustrations.

KEATS. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, 1820. A page-for-page and line-for-line reprint, with a facsimile title-page.

SHELLEY (MARY). Proserpine and Midas. unpublished Mythological Dramas. Edited by A. KOSZUL.

Two

SHELLEY. Prometheus Unbound, with other Poems,

1820. With a portrait.

TENNYSON. Poems, 1842.

WORDSWORTH. Poems, 1807.

¶ Selections from the Poets

BARNES (WILLIAM).

Edited with a Preface and

glossarial notes by THOMAS HARDY. With a portrait.

BLAKE. The Lyrical Poems. With an Introduction (45 pages) by Sir WALTER RALEIGH, and two drawings by BLAKE. Also on Oxford India Paper, 4s. 6d. net.

CLARE (JOHN). With an Introduction by ARTHUR

SYMONS.

CLOUGH. The Bothie, and other Poems. Edited by

H. S. MILFORD.

DE TABLEY (LORD). With an Introduction by JOHN

DRINKWATER.

PRAED (WILLIAM MACKWORTH).

A. D. GODLEY. With a portrait.

Edited by

SOUTHEY (ROBERT). The Lives and Works of the Uneducated Poets. Edited by J. S. CHILDERS.