'To Timahoe,' says he,
'And go to the fair,' says he,
'And see all that's there,' says he.—
'Now by this and by that,' says he,
'Tim, hang up my hat,' says he."
[4] Horne's New Spirit of the Age.
[5] No connection with any other Ode.
[6] The first two stanzas by Hood, the other two contributed by Barry Cornwall at the request of Mrs. Hood, with a view to the poem being set to music.
[7] Suggested, according to Hood's son, by a water-color drawing by Keats's friend Severn.
[8] The opening Poem in the volume published by Hood in 1827, under the same title. The Poem was prefaced by the following letter to Charles Lamb:—