Before observing that this part had been so expressed at the beginning, I made a translation of one small piece, which may give an idea of the others. EN EL ALBUM DE UNA SENORITA. Cual suele en màrmol sepulcral escrito Un nombre detener al pasagero, Pueda en aquesta pàgina mi nombre Fijar tus ojos, ay! por los que muero. Miralo, cuando ya de ti apartado, No te pide mi amor mas recompensa; De mi te acuerda como muerte y piensa Que aqui mi corazon queda enterrado. IN A LADY’S ALBUM. As on sepulchral marble writ A name to stay the passer-by, So let my name on this page meet Thine eyes, for which, alas! I die. Look on it when I am far from thee; My love asks no return more dear; As of one dead remember me, And think my heart is buried here. It was only on translating the last line that I recognized them as Lord Byron’s. WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM. As o’er the cold sepulchral stone Some name arrests the passer-by, Thus when thou view’st this page alone May mine attract thy pensive eye. And when by thee that name is read Perchance in some succeeding year, Reflect on me as on the dead, And think my heart is buried here. 48. Page 275. “Sonnet, Dedication,” &c. A MI ESPOSA. Cuando en mis venas fèrvidas ardia La fiera juventud, en mis canciones El tormentoso afan de mis pasiones Con dolorosas làgrimas vertia. Hoy à ti las dedico, Esposa mia, Cuando el amor mas libre de ilusiones Inflama nuestros puros corazones, Y sereno y de paz me luce el dia. Asi perdido en turbulentos mares Mìsero navegante al cielo implora, Cuando le aqueja la tormenta grave; Y del naufragio libre, en los altares Consagra fiel à la Deidad que adora Las hùmedas reliquias de su nave. This sonnet, and the two following translations, are taken respectively from pages 8, 18 and 46 of the first volume of the Toluca edition. The imitation of Lord Byron is at page 83 of the same. The Odes to ‘Poesy’ and to ‘Night’ are at pages 13 and 72 of the second volume. 49. Page 282. “Milton elevated all beyond.” Y Milton mas que todos elevado A su angel fiero de diamante armado. 50. Page 305. “Josè de Espronceda.” This name is to be pronounced Esprontheda. The translations, taken from the original poems, may be found in the Paris edition of 1848, at pages 49, 58, 73 and 79 respectively. The one translated, ‘The Condemned to Die,’ El Reo de Muerte, literally, ‘The Guilty of Death,’ has the signification given to this phrase by our translators of the New Testament, and it may be necessary to explain that the refrain “Your alms for prayers,” &c., is in the original merely “To do good for the soul of him who is about to be executed.” Para hacer bien al alma Del que van à ajusticiar!