[77] An air with this title was published about 1800 in London by Robert Birchall. See _Catalogue of Printed Music Published between 1487 and 1800 and now in the British Museum_, by W. Barclay Squire, 1912. Neither author nor composer is listed in the _Catalogue_. [78] This paragraph is materially changed from _F of F--B_. Clouds and darkness are substituted for starlight, silence for the sound of the wind. The weather here matches Mathilda’s mood. Four and a half lines of verse (which I have not been able to identify, though they sound Shelleyan--are they Mary’s own?) are omitted: of the stars she says, the wind is in the tree But they are silent;--still they roll along Immeasurably distant; & the vault Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds Still deepens its unfathomable depth. [79] If Mary quotes Coleridge’s _Ancient Mariner_ intentionally here, she is ironic, for this is no merciful rain, except for the fact that it brings on the illness which leads to Mathilda’s death, for which she longs. [80] This quotation from _Christabel_ (which suggests that the preceding echo is intentional) is not in _F of F--B_. [81] Cf. the description which opens _Mathilda_. [82] Among Lord Abinger’s papers, in Mary’s hand, are some comparable (but very bad) fragmentary verses addressed to Mother Earth. [83] At this point four sheets are cut out of the notebook. They are evidently those with pages numbered 217 to 223 which are among the _S-R fr_. They contain the conclusion of the story, ending, as does _F of F--B_ with Mathilda’s words spoken to Diotima in the Elysian Fields: “I am here, not with my father, but listening to lessons of wisdom, which will one day bring me to him when we shall never part. THE END.” Some passages are scored out, but not this final sentence. Tenses are changed from past to future. The name _Herbert_ is changed to _Woodville_. The explanation must be that Mary was hurrying to finish the revision (quite drastic on these final pages) and the transcription of her story before her confinement, and that in her haste she copied the pages from _F of F--B_ as they stood. Then, realizing that they did not fit _Mathilda_, she began to revise them; but to keep her MS neat, she cut out these pages and wrote the fair copy. There is no break in _Mathilda_ in story or in pagination. This fair copy also shows signs of haste: slips of the pen, repetition of words, a number of unimportant revisions. [84] Here in _F of F--B_ there is an index number which evidently points to a note at the bottom of the next page. The note is omitted in _Mathilda_. It reads: