THREESCORE AND TEN.-PAGE 602. First published in the Century Magazine for June, 1911. The epigraph is from the dialogue between Titian and Lewis Cornaro in Landor's Last Fruit off an Old Tree, 1853, p. 4. AN HORATIAN ODE.-Page 604. This was printed in the Times for Wednesday, June 21, 1911. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY-PAGE 606. This, which is really a belated contribution to the group of "Memorial Verses at pp. 301-320 (wrongly printed 340), appeared in the Thackeray Centenary number of the Cornhill Magazine for July, 1911. "With dignity and reticence."-Page 608. "Servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet." Ars Poetica, lines 126-7 (Thackeray's motto to Esmond). "Must need his Sermon and his Text."-PAGE 608. See the verses headed "Vanitas Vanitatum" in the Cornhill Magazine for July, 1860, and particularly Pray choose us out another text, O man morose and narrow-minded! Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every day renewing TO TIME, THE TYRANT.-PAGE 610. This rondeau appeared in Harper's Magazine for September, 1911. ROSE, IN THE Hedgerow Grown.-Page 613. This is a rondeau on the De Musset pattern, and therefore not strict in form. But since it appeared in the Spectator for February 26, 1876, it has been sometimes asked for, and it is consequently here included. JULY.-PAGE 614. This was first published in Evening Hours for July, 1876, and was afterwards revised for the late Mr. GLEESON WHITE'S Ballades and Rondeaus, 1887. "But marks your grass-grown headstone.”—PAGE 619. " This is a poetical license, for there is a quite typical tablet" to the "Jessamy Bride” in Weybridge Parish Church, where she lies with her mother and sister, "Little Comedy." I take this information from a very interesting paper on "The Hornecks," by H. P. K. Skipton, in the Connoisseur for September, 1910. "Where every landscape lover should."-PAGE 620. This was the theory of Evelyn and Howell, and the old votaries of the "Grand Tour." "I would wish my Traveler" says Lassels in his Voyage of Italy, 1670, i. 121 —“to make it his constant practise (as I did) to mount up the chief Steeple of all great townes." THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PORCH.-PAGE 623. The author of Dorothy, a Country Story, and the friend of R. D. Blackmore, ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY, to whom these verses were inscribed, died at Buttercup Farm, Pyrford, near Ripley, in Surrey, on Saturday, January 29, 1910, aged 81. He lies in the quiet little churchyard of Pyrford Church, of which there is a picture (by Mr. HUGH THOMSON) in Mr. ERIC PARKER'S Highways and Byways in Surrey, 1908, p. 232. "Ah! molliter ossa quiescant !" THE SONG OF THE SEA WIND.-PAGE 628. Mons. MAURICE BOUCHOR's Le Vent beugle, beugle, heugle, suggested this; but it does not reproduce his poem. A BALLAD OF THE QUEEN'S MAJESTY.-PAGE 632. This was printed in the Saturday Review for June 19, 1897. TO A FRIEND.-PAGE 634. These lines are a variation of some sent in 1908 to the late RICHARD WATSON GILDER, who died November 19, 1909. THE SONNET OF THE MOUNTAIN.-PAGE 635. My friend Mr. SAMUEL WADDINGTON, for whose Sonnets of Europe (Walter Scott, 1886) this and the three following translations were written, pointed out in the Athenæum for May 23, 1891, that an earlier version of this particular poem had been made by Sir Thomas Wyatt "about the year 1530." TO MONSIEUR DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER. -PAGE 638. From pp. 266-7 of Sonnets of Europe, I transcribe Mr. WADDINGTON's note: "François de la Mothe le Vayer, member of the French Academy, and preceptor of Louis XIV., lost his son in 1664, and Molière, in forwarding him this sonnet, observes, Vous voyez bien, Monsieur, que je m'écarte fort du chemin qu'on suit d'ordinaire en pareille rencontre, que le Sonnet que je vous envoye n'est rien moins qu'une consolation; mais j'ay cru qu'il falloit en user de la sorte avec vous & que c'est consoler un Philosophe que de luy justifier ses larmes, & de mettre sa douleur en liberté. Si je n'ay pas trouvé d'assez fortes raisons pour affranchir vostre tendresse des sévères leçons de la Philosophie, & pour vous obliger à pleurer sans contrainte, il en faut accuser le peu d'éloquence d'un homme qui ne sçauroit persuader ce qu'il sçait si bien faire.” THE BALLAD of Bitter Fruit.-Page 641. This was contributed to the Century Guild Hobby Horse for April 1889. ADDITIONAL NOTES "LOVE WAS A SHEPHERD."-PAGE 65. I have sometimes fancied that the song referred to must have run in this wise: When this old world was new, Before the towns were made, Clear-eyed as flowers men grew, Of evil unafraid, When this old world was new. No skill had they to woo, What need to feign or sue! Not thus was life delay'd When this old world was new. Under the cloudless blue They kiss'd their shepherd-maid— Love was a shepherd too. They knew but joy; they knew No pang of Love decay'd: When this old world was new, A SONG OF THE GREENAWAY CHILD.-PAGE 586. In an article by the writer on Kate Greenaway (Art Journal, April, 1902) the following lines were included : "K. G." (November 6, 1901.) Farewell, kind heart! And if there be Clean-souled, clear-eyed, unspoiled, discreet. Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. |