[271:2] Othello iii. 3.
[271:3] The words 'Part II' are not in the MS.
[276:1] In the MS. of The Friend, Part III is headed:—'The Three Graves. A Sexton's Tale. A Fragment.' A MS. note erased in the handwriting of S. T. C. is attached:—'N. B. Written for me by Sarah Stoddart before her brother was an entire Blank. I have not voluntarily been guilty of any desecration of holy Names.' In The Friend, in Sibylline Leaves, in 1828, 1829, and 1834, the poem is headed 'The Three Graves, &c.' The heading 'Part III' first appeared in 1893.
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In the silent summer heat MS. alternative reading.
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Why these three graves all in a row
MS. alternative reading.
Stretch out their dark and gloomy length