[A] In Coleridge's _Friend_, December 21.--ED. [B] Compare Aubrey de Vere's _Picturesque Sketches of Greece and Turkey_, vol. i. chap. viii. p. 204.--ED. In _The Friend_ (edition 1812), the following footnote occurs-- "... universal Pan, Knit with the graces and the hours in dance, Led on the eternal spring.--MILTON." ED. "HAIL, ZARAGOZA! IF WITH UNWET EYE" Composed 1809.--Published 1815 Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye We can approach, thy sorrow to behold, Yet is the heart not pitiless nor cold; Such spectacle demands not tear or sigh. These desolate remains are trophies high 5 Of more than martial courage in the breast Of peaceful civic virtue:[A] they attest Thy matchless worth to all posterity. Blood flowed before thy sight without remorse; Disease consumed thy vitals; War upheaved 10 The ground beneath thee with volcanic force: Dread trials! yet encountered and sustained Till not a wreck of help or hope remained, And law was from necessity[1] received.[B] See note to the sonnet beginning "And is it among rude untutored Dales" (p. 222). "Saragossa surrendered February 20, 1809, after a heroic defence, which may recall the sieges of Numantiaor Saguntum. Every street, almost every house, had been hotly contested; the monks, and even the women, had taken a conspicuous share in the defence; more than 40,000 bodies of both sexes and every age testified to the obstinate courage of the besieged." (See Dyer's _History of Modern Europe_, vol. iv. p. 496.)--ED. VARIANTS: [1] The word "necessity" was _italicised_ in the editions of 1815 to 1843. FOOTNOTES: [A] Compare a passage in Wordsworth's Essay _Concerning the Convention of Cintra_ (1809, pp. 180-1), beginning "Most gloriously have the Citizens of Saragossa proved that the true army of Spain, in a contest of this nature, is the whole people."--ED. [B] The beginning is imitated from an Italian Sonnet.--W. W. 1815. In 1837 Wordsworth put it thus, "In this Sonnet I am under some obligations to one of an Italian author, to which I cannot refer." But it is to be noted that in the edition of 1837, this note does not refer to the sonnet on Saragossa, but to that beginning "O, for a kindling touch from that pure flame," belonging to the year 1816. In subsequent editions the note is reappended to this sonnet beginning "Hail, Zaragoza!"--ED. "SAY, WHAT IS HONOUR?--'TIS THE FINEST SENSE" Composed 1809.--Published 1815