‘The Little Black Rose’ (l. 1) and ‘The Silk of the Kine’ (l. 5) were mystical names applied to Ireland by the bards. Athenry (l. 12), in county Galway, was the scene of a battle in which the Irish under Felim O’Conor were defeated by the English forces under Sir William de Burgh (1316). CLXXX-CLXXXI The first appeared in _The Nation_, 1st April 1843, and both are included in _Sonnets and Other Poems_ (A. & C. Black, 1900). By permission of author and publishers. CLXXXII-CLXXXIII _Bards of the Gael and Gall_ (T. Fisher Unwin, 1897). By permission of author and publisher. Both are translations from Irish poems of the seventeenth century. As to the first,--O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and O’Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, hearing that the Government had determined to seize them on a charge of conspiracy, apparently groundless, suddenly left Ireland, sailing from Rathmullan, on Lough Foyle, to France (1607). Their estates were confiscated, and ‘The Plantation of Ulster’ began. CLXXXIV From _Dublin Verses_ (Elkin Mathews, 1895)--a collection of poems by members of Trinity College, Dublin. By permission of author and publisher. CLXXXV _Macmillan’s Magazine_ (September, 1900). By permission of the author and the editor of _Macmillan’s Magazine_. CLXXXVI _The Rising of the Moon and Other Poems_ (1869). By permission of Messrs. Cameron & Ferguson, the present publishers. l. 2. _ma bouchal._ My boy. 11. _banshee._ The fairy spirit of doom (Irish, _ban-sidhe_). CLXXXVII _Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland_ (Dublin: Gill & Son, 1888). By permission of the author. Clonmacnois, founded by St. Kieran in the sixth century, was for many generations one of the greatest ecclesiastical establishments and centres of learning in Ireland. It was the chosen burial-place of many royal and noble families. CLXXXVIII _The Wind in the Trees_ (Grant Richards, 1898). By permission of the author. CLXXXIX _Poems_ (Elkin Mathews, 1895). By permission of author and publisher. l. 2. _Inisfail_ (_i.e._ ‘The Isle of Destiny’), an ancient name of Ireland. V.--CANADA CXC _Poems_ (Toronto: Dudley & Burns, 1888). By permission of the author. The Nile Expeditionary Force for the relief of General Gordon was conveyed up the river in flat-bottomed boats navigated by Canadian Indians (_voyageurs_). CXCI _Lays of Canada_ (Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1890). By permission of the author. CXCII _Laura Second and Other Poems_ (Toronto, 1887). By permission of the author’s representatives. CXCII _A Treasury of Canadian Verse_ (J. M. Dent & Co., 1900). By permission of the author’s representatives. CXCIV _Toronto Daily Mail_ (July 23, 1885). By permission of the author. The call for volunteers was occasioned by the ‘Half-Breed Rebellion’ in North-West Canada (1884-5). CXCV Published separately (McCorquodale & Co., 1900), and sold for the benefit of the Canadian Patriotic Fund. By permission of the author. CXCVI