Evidently a slip of the pen for 'Children.'
Poetical Works, iii. 186. Mr. Boyd's opinion of it may be learnt from Miss Barrett's letter to Horne, dated August 31, 1843 (Letters to R.H. Horne, i. 84): 'Mr. Boyd told me that he had read my papers on the Greek Fathers with the more satisfaction because he had inferred from my "House of Clouds" that illness had impaired my faculties.'
Poetical Works, i. 223.
The lines 'To J.S.,' which begin: