_Poems_ (1807). Composed August 1802. ‘On August 29th left Calais at 12 in the morning for Dover.... Bathed and sat on the Dover Cliffs, looked upon France. We could see the shores about as plain as if it were an English lake. Mounted the coach at half-past four, arrived in London at six.’--(Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal.) XXXIV-XL _Poems_ (1807). The first and second were composed in September 1802, the third in 1803, and the fourth in 1806. The fifth is from the third stanza of the _Thanksgiving Ode_ (1816). The sixth and seventh were ‘composed or suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833,’ and were published in _Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems_ (1835). XLI From the Introduction to the first canto of _Marmion_ (1808). XLII-XLIII _The Snug Little Island, or The March of Invasion_ was first sung by ‘Jew’ Davis in _The British Raft_ at Sadler’s Wells on Easter Monday, 1797. Tune--‘The Rogue’s March.’ The author’s title for the next number (_Last Lays_, 1833) is _A Soldier’s Life_. XLIV _Poetical Works_, vol. iii. (Longmans, 1838). This is number xxxiii. of the ‘Inscriptions.’ XLV-XLVII The first two were published with _Gertrude of Wyoming_ (1809). The first (written at Altona during the winter of 1800-1) is based on a seventeenth-century song which Campbell used to sing. As to the second (written in 1805), I omit stanzas 5, 6, and 8, an improvement suggested by Mr. Henley. The third appeared in _Theodoric and Other Poems_ (Longmans, 1824). XLVIII _Songs and Poems_ (edited by Peter Cunningham, 1847). XLIX-LI The first is from _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_ (canto iii. stanza 2, and canto iv. stanzas 8, 9, 10). The third canto was published in 1816, and the fourth in 1818. Byron left England--never to return--on April 24, 1816. l. 22. The poet’s body was sent home to England, and was buried in the family vault at Hucknall Torkard, near Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire. 32. The answer of the mother of Brasidas, the Spartan General, to the strangers who praised the memory of her son. The second is from the third canto of _Don Juan_ (1821). The third is from _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_ (canto iii. stanzas 21-28). The Duchess of Richmond’s famous ball took place on June 15, 1815, the eve of Quatre Bras, at the Duke’s house in the Rue de la Blanchisserie, Brussels. 20. _Brunswick’s fated chieftain._ The Duke of Brunswick (1771-1815) was killed at Quatre Bras. His father, author of the famous manifesto against the French Republic (July 15, 1792), had fallen at Jena (1806). 54. _Evan’s--Donald’s._ Sir Evan Cameron (1629-1719) and his grandson Donald Cameron of Lochiel (1695-1748). The former fought at Killiecrankie (1689), and the latter, celebrated by Campbell in _Lochiel’s Warning_, was wounded at Culloden (1746). 55. _Ardennes._ The general term is applied to the forest of Soignies, which at this time occupied the whole country between Brussels and Waterloo. LII