The only thing remarkable about Walsh's preface is that Dr. Johnson praises it as "very judicious," but is, at the same time, silent respecting the poems to which it is prefixed (Moore).
No "Ode" under this title is to be found in Walsh's
Poems
. Byron had, no doubt, in mind
The Golden Age Restored
— a composition in which, says Dr. Johnson, "there was something of humour, while the facts were recent; but it now strikes no longer."