Of the first four numbers, the high-water mark of Wordsworth's achievement, all four were written in 1802; the second and third were published in 1803; the first and fourth in 1807. The _Ode to Duty_ was written in 1805, and published in 1807, to which year belongs that _Song for the Feast of Brougham Castle_, from which I have extracted the excellent verses here called _Two Victories_. LIII-LXII The first three numbers are from _Marmion_ (1808): I. Introduction; V. 12; and VI. 18-20, 25-27, and 33-34. The next is from _The Lady of the Lake_ (1810), I. 1-9: _The Outlaw_ is from _Rokeby_ (1813), III. 16; the _Pibroch_ was published in 1816; _The Omnipotent_ and _The Red Harlaw_ are from _The Antiquary_ (1816), and the _Farewell_ from _The Pirate_ (1821). As for _Bonny Dundee_, that incomparable ditty, it was written as late as 1825. 'The air of Bonny Dundee running in my head to-day,' he writes under date of 22d December (_Diary_, 1890, i. 61), 'I wrote a few verses to it before dinner, taking the key-note from the story of Clavers leaving the Scottish Convention of Estates in 1688-9. _I wonder if they are good._' See _The Doom of Devorgoil_ (1830), Note A, Act II. sc. 2. LXIII This unsurpassed piece of art, in which a music the most exquisite is used to body forth a set of suggestions that seem dictated by the very Spirit of Romance, was produced, under the influence of 'an anodyne,' as early as 1797. Coleridge, who calls it _Kubla Khan: A Vision within a Dream_, avers that, having fallen asleep in his chair over a sentence from Purchas's Pilgrimage--'Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built and a stately garden thereto; and thus ten miles of ground were enclosed with a wall,'--he remained unconscious for about three hours, 'during which time he had the most vivid confidence that he could not have composed less than three hundred lines'; 'if that,' he adds, 'can be called composition, in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.' On awakening, he proceeded to write out his 'composition,' and had set down as much of it as is printed here, when 'he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock,' whose departure, an hour after, left him wellnigh oblivious of the rest. This confession, which is dated 1816, has been generally accepted as true; but Coleridge had a trick of dreaming dreams about himself which makes doubt permissible. LXIV From the _Hellenics_ (written in Latin, 1814-20, and translated into English at the instance of Lady Blessington), 1846. See Colvin, _Landor_ ('English Men of Letters'), pp. 189, 190. LXV-LXVII