_His Angel to his Mother_: P. 21.
One line of the refrain is taken from an old love song,
"Sweet, if you Love me, Let me Go," set to a charming
melody in D major, and to be found in Chappell's Popular
Music of the Olden Time.
_Beside Hazlitt's Grave_: P. 47.
St. Anne's, Soho, boasts the "sorry steeple," one of
London's architectural absurdities. Hazlitt's grave is
grassed over and unmarked, but the epitaph which has now
for some years stood in place of the interesting original
one, may be read on the headstone set against the outer
west wall of the church.
_The Vigil-at-Arms_: P. 48.
Suggested by the very simple but soldierly melody in
Mendelssohn's Lied ohne Worte in A, Book I, Opus 19, No. 4,
the last two lines coming in for repetitions.
_A Friend's Song for Simoisius_: P. 49.
Having to do with Iliad IV, 473-489.
_The Inner Fate_: P. 64.
It is perhaps too daring to force into Greek forms any
sentiment so dead against the Greek spirit of determinism.
_The Acknowledgment_: P. 66.
"The Prætor." Brutus in Shakespeare, if not the historical
Brutus.
_The Cherry Bough_: P. 70.
"Si quis adhuc isthic meminit Nasonis adempti,
Et superest sine me nomen in urbe meum."
_Tristia_, Lib. III, El. X.
"Atque aliquis vestrum, Nasonis nomine dicto,
Deponat lacrymis pocula mista suis."
_Idem_, Lib. V, El. IV.
_A Talisman_: P. 87.
Many years after these lines were in print, it was pointed
out to the author by a friend, a student of St. Bernard,
how they have managed to echo in part a saying of that
great Doctor, in his _De Consideratione_, Lib. I, Cap.
VIII, Sec. 9:
"Prudentia item est quae inter voluptates et necessitates
media, quasi quaedam arbitra sedens ... disterminat fines
... ex alterutris tertiam formans virtutem quam dicunt
Temperantiam."
_Fifteen Epitaphs_: P. 91.
It may be well to state (as these have often been taken for
translations), that they are only pseudo-Alexandrian.
_A Footpath Morality_: P. 121.
A sort of floral log-book of a walk from Oxford to Appleton
in Berkshire, May, 1908.