[650] Peter Henry Bruce, having given in his entertaining Memoirs the substance of this Tale,[666] affirms that, besides the concurring reports of others, he had the story from the lady's own mouth. The Lady Catherine, mentioned towards the close, is[667] the famous Catherine, then bearing that name as the acknowledged Wife of Peter the Great.--W. W. 1835. The title of this poem in the MS. copy by Mrs. Wordsworth is-- INA, OR, THE LODGE IN THE FOREST, A Russian Tale. ED. [651] Compare S. T. Coleridge's verses, _To a Lady_-- 'Tis not the lily-brow I prize, Nor roseate cheeks, nor sunny eyes, Enough of lilies and of roses! A thousand-fold more dear to me The gentle look that Love discloses,-- The look that Love alone can see! And Keats' lines beginning-- Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain. Also Wordsworth's _Jewish Family_, II. 25-28.--ED. [652] 1835. Yea, to the stars themselves, if born C. [653] 1835. ... by gold unbarred, MS. copy by Mrs. Wordsworth. [654] 1837. She hung upon ... 1835. [655] 1837. She led her Lady ... 1835. [656] 1835. And I must hide me from his wrath. MS. [657] 1850. That here ... 1835. [658] 1835. And smiles, the sunshine of distress, That hide-yet more betray. MS. [659] 1835. ... serene; Exalting lowly grace, A Faith which does ... MS. [660] In the edition of 1835 the two preceding lines were placed within quotation marks, and the following added "From Golding's Translation of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_. See also his Dedicatory Epistle prefixed to the same work."-ED. [661] "Not a Russian house, Bruce tells us, was, at his time, without a picture of the Virgin." (MS. note to a copy of this poem, in Mrs. Wordsworth's handwriting.)--ED. [662] The Royal Palace at Moscow.--ED. [663] 1835. ... the Cavalier Recounted all he knew, The sufferer's filial heart to cheer; Then hastily withdrew. MS. [664] 1837. ... third ... 1835. [665] 1837. And over-joy ... 1835. [666] 1845. of the following Tale 1835. [667] 1837. was 1835. THE EGYPTIAN MAID OR, THE ROMANCE OF THE WATER LILY Composed 1830.--Published 1835