24. 'MORNING MIDDAY AND EVENING SACRIFICE. Oxford, Aug. '79.' Autograph in A. The first stanza reproduced after p. 70. Copied by me into B, where it received cor- rection. Text follows B except in lines 19 and 20, where the correction reads _What Death half lifts the latch of, What hell hopes soon the snatch of_. And punctuation is not all followed: original has comma after the second _this_ in lines 5 and 6. On June 30, '86, G. M. H. wrote to Canon Dixon, who wished to print the first stanza alone in some anthology, and made _ad hoc_ alterations which I do not follow. The original 17th line was _Silk-ashed but core not cooling_, and was altered because of its obscurity. 'I meant (he wrote) to compare grey hairs to the flakes of silky ash which may be seen round wood embers . . . and covering a core of heat. . . .' _Your offer- ing, with despatch, of_ is said like 'your ticket', 'your reasons', 'your money or your life . . .' It is: 'Come, your offer of all this (the matured mind), and without delay either!' 25. 'ANDROMEDA. Oxford, Aug. 12, '79.' A--which B cor- rects in two places only. Text rejects the first, in line 4 _dragon_ for _dragon's_: but follows B in line 10, where A had _Air, pillowy air_. There is no comma at _barebill_ in any MS., but a gap and sort of caesural mark in A. In a letter Aug. 14, '79, G. M. H. writes: 'I enclose a sonnet on which I invite minute criticism. I endeavoured in it at a more Miltonic plainness and severity than I have any- where else. I cannot say it has turned out severe, still less plain, but it seems almost free from quaintness and in aiming at one excellence I may have hit another.' 26. 'THE CANDLE INDOORS. (Common rhythm, counter- pointed.) Oxford, '79.' A. Text takes corrections of B, which adds 'companion to No.' 10. A has in line 2 _With a yellowy_, and 5 _At that_. 27. 'THE HANDSOME HEART. (Common rhythm counter- pointed.) Oxford, '79.' A1.--In Aug. of the same year he wrote that he was surprised at my liking it, and in deference to my criticism sent a revise, A2.--Subsequently he recast the sonnet mostly in the longer 6-stress lines, and wrote that into B.--In that final version the charm and freshness have disappeared: and his emendation in evading the clash of _ply_ and _reply_ is awkward; also the fourteen lines now contain seven _whats_. I have therefore taken A1 for the text, and have ventured, in line 8, to restore _how to_, in the place of _what_, from the original version which exists in H. In 'The Spirit of Man' I gave a mixture of A1 and A2. In line 5 the word _soul_ is in H and A1: but A2 and B have _heart_. _Father_ in second line was the Rev. Father Gerard himself. He tells the whole story in a letter to me. 28. 'AT A WEDDING. (Sprung rhythm.) Bedford, Lancashire, Oct. 21, '79.' A. Autograph uncorrected in B, but title changed to that in text.