mantic a word as even Shakespeare ever used.

LXVIII

_Corn Law Rhymes_, 1831.

LXIX

From that famous and successful forgery, Cromek's _Remains of
Nithsdale and Galloway Song_ (1810), written when Allan was
a working mason in Dumfriesshire. I have omitted a stanza as
inferior to the rest.

LXXI

_English Songs and other Small Poems_, 1834.

LXXII-LXXVIII

The first is from the _Hebrew Melodies_ (1815); the next is
selected from _The Siege of Corinth_ (1816), 22-33; _Alhama_
(_idem_) is a spirited yet faithful rendering of the _Romance
muy Doloroso del Sitio y Toma de Alhama_, which existed both in
Spanish and in Arabic, and whose effect was such that 'it was
forbidden to be sung by the Moors on the pain of death in Granada'
(Byron); No. LXXV., surely one of the bravest songs in the
language, was addressed (_idem_) to Thomas Moore; the tremendous
_Race with Death_ is lifted out of the _Ode in Venice_ (1819);
for the next number see _Don Juan_, III. (1821); the last of all,
'Stanzas inscribed _On this day I completed my Thirty-sixth year_'
(1824), is the last verse that Byron wrote.

LXXIX

Napier has described the terrific effect of Napoleon's pursuit;
but in the operations before Corunna he was distanced, if not
out-generalled, by Sir John Moore, and ere the first days of
1809 he gave his command to Soult, who pressed us vainly through
the hill-country between Leon and Gallicia, and got beaten
at Corunna for his pains. Wolfe, who was an Irish parson and
died of consumption, wrote some spirited verses on the flight
of Busaco, but this admirable elegy--'I will show you,' said
Byron to Shelley (Medwin, ii. 154) 'one you have never seen,
that I consider little if at all inferior to the best, the
present prolific age has brought forth'--remains his passport
to immortality. It was printed, not by the author, in an Irish
newspaper; was copied all over Britain; was claimed by liar after
liar in succession; and has been reprinted more often, perhaps,
than any poem of the century.

LXXX

From _Snarleyow, or the Dog Fiend_ (1837). Compare Nelson to
Collingwood: '_Victory_, 25th June, 1805,--May God bless you
and send you alongside the _Santissima Trinidad_.'

LXXXI, LXXXII

The story of Casabianca is, I believe, untrue; but the intention
of the singer, alike in this number and in the next, is excellent.
Each indeed is, in its way, a classic. The _Mayflower_ sailed
from Southampton in 1626.