Page 51. Angel Help.
This poem was first printed in the New Monthly Magazine, 1827, with trifling differences, and the addition, at the end, of this couplet:—
Virtuous Poor Ones, sleep, sleep on,
And, waking, find your labours done.
I am afraid that the "Nonsense Verses" on page 123 represent an attempt to make fun of this beautiful poem.
Aders' house in Euston Square was hung with engravings principally of the German school (see the poem on page 94 addressed to him).
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Page 52. The Christening.
These lines were first printed in Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1829.
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Page 53. On an Infant Dying as soon as Born.