[4] This story appeared under the title of 'The Master' with other Poems in Prose in The Fortnightly Review for July, 1894. Two of them, 'The Disciple' and 'The House of Judgment,' were first published in The Spirit Lamp in 1893. This was a magazine published at Oxford under the editorship of Lord Alfred Douglas, who had recently bought it from the founder and changed its style and form. A complete set of the fifteen numbers is now exceedingly scarce.
[5] Henri Davray translated these 'Poems in Prose' in La Revue Blanche.
[6] Since Villiers de l'Isle-Adam has betrayed it, every one knows, alas! the great secret of the Church: There is no Purgatory!
II.
I have made my choice, have lived my poems, and
though youth is gone in wasted days,
I have found the lover's crown of myrtle better than
the poet's crown of bays.