'_Shades of the dead! have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale?_ Surely the _soul of the hero rejoices_, _And rides on the wind_, o'er his own Highland vale. Round Loch-na-Garr, while the stormy mist gathers, Winter presides in his cold icy car; _Clouds there encircle the forms of my fathers_: They dwell in the tempests of dark Loch-na-Garr.' THE VERSES OF 'ST. IRVYNE.' '_Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling Rise on the night-rolling breath of the blast_, When o'er the dark ether the tempest is swelling, And on eddying whirlwind the thunder-peal past? 'For oft I have stood on the dark height of Jura, Which frowns on the valley which opens beneath: Oft have I brav'd the chill night-tempest's fury, Whilst around me, I thought, echo'd murmurs of death. 'And now, whilst the winds of the mountain are howling, _O father! thy voice seems to strike on mine ear_; In air whilst the tide of the night-storm is rolling, It breaks on the pause of the elements' jar. 'On the wing of the whirlwind which roars in the mountain Perhaps _rides the ghost of my sire who is dead_; On the mist of the tempest which hangs o'er the fountain, Whilst a wreath of dark vapour encircles his head.' In a note to _St. Irvyne_ (in his edition of Shelley's 'prose works'), Mr. Buxton Forman calls attention to the obvious adoption of the two first lines of the quoted stanza of Byron's poem, as though they were the whole of the youthful Shelley's 'small debt' in this particular matter, to the youthful Byron. It cannot have escaped the notice of Shelley's careful editor that, whilst Shelley speaks of his father's ghost as riding on the whirlwind and the mist of the tempest, Byron sees 'the forms of his fathers' in the clouds over-hanging Loch-na-Garr, and sings how the soul of one of his ancestral heroes 'rides on the wind.' It can scarcely have escaped the careful editor that the whole thought of Shelley's sixteen verses was 'lifted' out of Byron's eight verses. CHAPTER IX. MR. DENIS FLORENCE MACCARTHY _v._ THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG. Shelley's Matriculation at Oxford--Hogg's Matriculation at Oxford--Hogg's First Arrival at Oxford--Lord Grenville's Election--Mr. Denis Florence MacCarthy's Blunders--Hogg's 'New Monthly' Papers on Shelley at Oxford--Mrs. Shelley's Reason for not Writing her Husband's 'Life'--Peacock's Reason for not Writing it--Leigh Hunt's Reason for not Writing it--Hogg undertakes the Task--Hogg's Two Volumes--Their Merits and Faults--Hogg dismissed by Field Place--His Mistakes and Misrepresentations--Some of his Misrepresentations adopted by Field Place.