The reference is to the rejoicings on the Leipzig victory of the Allied Forces, October 16 to 19, 1813. Napoleon crossed the Rhine on the 2nd November, and returned to Paris with the wreck of his army. George III. was English Sovereign; but, owing to his illness, the Prince of Wales had been appointed Regent, and assumed executive power in January 1811. The King died at Windsor in 1820, being eighty-two years of age. He had been entirely blind for some years before his death. The "twofold night" referred to in the sonnet is sufficiently obvious.--ED. VARIANTS: [1] 1815. ... inmost ... 1838. The text of 1840 returns to that of 1815. [2] C. and 1838. ... and embrace, 1815. [3] 1832. (Though were it ...) 1815. END OF VOL. IV _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. * * * * * Transcriber's note: 1. The Tyrolese Sonnets in German were originally printed in the Fraktur Black Letter font and are unmarked. Within these sonnets several words appear in gesperrt (s p a c e d), these words have been surrounded by ~tilde signs~. 2. A full line ellipsis in poetry is represented by a single "..." and a full line ellipsis in quoted text is represented by a row of spaced periods, " . . . . . " 3. Minor punctuation errors have been corrected. 4. All footnotes have been moved to the chapter or sub-chapter ends EXCEPTING the footnote at the end of Tyrolese Sonnet VI which has been placed immediately after the sonnet though the chapter continues and other succeeding footnotes appear at the end. Numbered footnotes are "variants" of words or phrases changed by Mr. Wordsworth in various published versions of his work. Lettered footnotes are those of the Editor Mr. Knight. In the original text the printer used multiple periods to push single and multiple word "Variants" into the place in the notes where they occured in the poem. In this e-text a single ellipsis (...) is used to represent positioning of preceeding and succeeding words. The variant anchor point indicates the relative position of the word variant in the poem. In footnote [A] to the poem "In the Grounds of Coleorton", p. 79 "l. 7." has been changed to p. 79 "l. 13." While the note correctly identifies the 7th line of the text of the poem printed on p. 79, it is actually l. 13. of the poem. 5. All poetry line markers have been retained as placed and numbered by the printer at 5, 4 or 6 line intervals. 6. No spelling alterations have been made. A number of alternate and/or inconsistent spellings appear in this text, including but not limited to: "achieves" and "atchieved" "antient", "ancyent", and "ancient" "belovèd" and "beloved" "birthplace" (by ED.) and "birth-place" (in poetry and notes)