29. 'FELIX RANDAL. (Sonnet: sprung and outriding rhythm; six-foot lines.) Liverpool, Apr. 28, '80.' A. Text from A with the two corrections of B. The comma in line 5 after _impatient_ is omitted in copy in B. 30. 'BROTHERS. (Sprung rhythm; three feet to the line; lines free-ended and not overrove; and reversed or counter- pointed rhythm allowed in the first foot.) Hampstead, Aug. 1880.' Five various drafts exist. A1 and A2 both of Aug. '80. B was copied by me from A1, and author's emendations of it overlook those in A2. Text therefore is from A 2 except that the first seven lines, being rewritten in margin afresh (and confirmed in letter of Ap. '81 to Canon Dixon), as also corrections in lines 15-18, these are taken. But the B corrections of lines 22, 23, almost certainly imply forgetfulness of A^. In last line B has correction _Dearly thou canst be kind_; but the intention of _I'll cry_ was original, and has four MSS. in its favour. 31. 'SPRING AND FALL. (Sprung rhythm.) Lydiate, Lan- cashire, Sept. 7, 1880.' A. Text and title from B, which corrects four lines, and misdates '81. There is also a copy in D, Jan. '81, and see again Apr. 6, '81. In line 2 the last word is _unleafing_ in most of the MSS. An attempt to amend the second rhyme was unsuccessful. 32. 'SPELT FROM SIBYL'S LEAVES. (Sonnet: sprung rhythm: a rest of one stress in the first line.)' Autograph in A-- another later in B, which is taken for text. Date unre- corded, lines 5, 6, _astray_ thus divided to show the rhyme.--6. _throughther_, an adj., now confined to dialect. It is the speech form of _through-other_, in which shape it eludes pursuit in the Oxford dictionary. Dr. Murray compares Ger. _durch einander_. Mr. Craigie tells me that the classical quotation for it is from Burns's 'Halloween', st. 5, _They roar an cry a' throughther_.--line 8. _With_, i.e. I suppose, _with your warning that_, &c.: the heart is speaking. 9. _beak-leaved_ is not hyphened in MS.-- 11. _part, pen, pack_, imperatives of the verbs, in the sense of sorting 'the sheep from the goats'.--12. A has _wrong right_, but the correction to _right wrong_ in B is intentional. 14.--_sheathe-_ in both MSS., but I can only make sense of _sheath-_, i.e. 'sheathless and shelterless'. The accents in this poem are a selection from A and B. 33. 'INVERSNAID. Sept. 28, 1881.' Autograph in H. I have found no other trace of this poem. 34. _As kingfishers_. Text from undated autograph in H, a draft with corrections and variants. In lines 3 and 4 _hung_ and _to fling out broad_ are corrections in same later pencilling as line 5, which occurs only thus with them. In sestet the first three lines have alternatives of regular rhythm, thus: Then I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace and that keeps all his goings graces; In God's eye acts, &c.