[72]. [Lyre and shield.] As the God of Medicine, giving health and safety, Apollo is sometimes described with a shield, as well as a lyre.
[73]. [Again to save &c.] See Needwood Forest, p. 43.
[74]. [And many a noble heart &c.] Alluding to the opposition to the Inclosure.
[75]. [Yet Limbrook, &c.] This rivulet rises on the late Forest and takes its course through an extensive valley on the brow of which stands Byrkley Lodge, and proceeds downwards by Yoxall Lodge: some beautiful Forest scenes have been added to the old Inclosures of these Lodges, where are shrubberies and sheets of water.
[76]. [And ever, in thy favour’d bound,] Applying the whole scenery around these lodges to Limbrook.
[77]. [When stoops the stranger ewe to drink;] Sheep were not depastur’d on the Forest.
[78]. [The tracks of their remember’d deer,] It is said that the Wolf-tracks may yet be seen in some parts which those animals frequented, in Ireland, centuries ago.
[79]. [Monster of the world] French Revolution.
[80]. [Emma’s art] Miss Emma Sneyd, of Byrkley Lodge, has produced some beautiful landscapes and drawings of the Forest scenes.
[81]. [“Here Gisborne penn’d his moral lay] The character and writings both in verse and prose of the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, are equally well known and admired: the public has lately called for a seventh edition of his “Walks in a Forest.”