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Ode to God. [Reign’d the Universe’s Master ere were earthly things begun] Borrow reprinted this Ode in The Bible in Spain, 1843, Vol. iii, p. 333. 1
Prayer. [O Thou who dost know what the heart fain would hide] 2
Death. [Grim Death in his shroud swatheth mortals each hour] 3
Stanzas. On a Fountain. [In the fount fell my tears, like rain] 4
Stanzas. The Pursued. [How wretched roams the weary wight] 4
Odes. From the Persian:
1. [Boy, hand my friends the cup, ’tis time of roses now] 5
2. [If shedding lovers’ blood thou deem’st a matter slight] 5
3. [O thou, whose equal mind knows no vexation] 6
Stanzas. From the Turkish of Fezouli. [O Fezouli, the hour is near] 7
Description of Paradise. [Eight Gennets there be, as some relate] 8
O Lord! I nothing crave but Thee. [O Thou, from whom all love doth flow] 11
Mystical Poem. Relating to the worship of the Great Foutsa or Buddh. [Should I Foutsa’s force and glory] 13
Moral Metaphors:
1. [From out the South the genial breezes sigh] 19
2. [Survey, survey Gi Shoi’s murmuring flood!] 20
The Mountain-Chase. [Autumn has fled and winter left our bounds] 21
The Glory of the Cossacks. [Quiet Don!] 24
The Black Shawl. [On the shawl, the black shawl with distraction I gaze] 27
Song. From the Russian of Pushkin. [Hoary man, hateful man!] 29
The Cossack. An ancient Ballad. [O’er the field the snow is flying] 30
The Three Sons of Budrys. [With his three mighty sons, tall as Ledwin’s were once] 32
The Banning of the Pest. [Hie away, thou horrid monster!] 35
Woinomoinen. [Then the ancient Woinomoinen] 37
The Words of Beowulf, Son of Egtheof. [Every one beneath the heaven] 39
The Lay of Biarke. [The day in East is glowing] The title of this Ballad as it appears in the original MS. is The Biarkemal. 40
The Hail-storm. [For victory as we bounded] Previously printed (but with very considerable variations in the text, the first line reading “When from our ships we bounded”) in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 136–138. A final version of the Ballad, written about 1854, was printed in Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 14–15. 42
The King and Crown. [The King who well crown’d does govern the land] 44
Ode To a Mountain Torrent. [O stripling immortal thou forth dost career] Previously printed (but with an entirely different text, the first line reading “How lovely art thou in thy tresses of foam”) in The Monthly Magazine, Vol. lvi., 1823, p. 244. Also printed in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 164–166. The first stanza of the Ode as printed in Targum does not figure in the version given in Romantic Ballads, whilst the third stanza of the Romantic Ballads version is not to be found in Targum. 45
Chloe. [O we have a sister on earthly dominions!] Previously printed in The Monthly Magazine, Vol. lvi, 1823, p. 437. 47
National Song. From the Danish of Evald. [King Christian stood beside the mast] Previously printed (under the title Sea Song; from the Danish of Evald) in The Monthly Magazine, December, 1823, p. 437. Also printed in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 146–148; and again in The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. vi, June, 1830, p. 70. The four versions of this Song, as printed in The Monthly Magazine, in Romantic Ballads, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, and in Targum, are utterly different, the opening line being the only one which has approximately the same reading in all. 49
Sir Sinclair. [Sir Sinclair sail’d from the Scottish ground] Previously printed in The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. vi, June, 1830, p. 73. 51
Hvidfeld. [Our native land has ever teem’d] 56
Birting. A Fragment. [It was late at evening tide] This “Fragment” consists of fifteen stanzas from the Ballad The Giant of Berne and Orm Ungerswayne, which was printed complete, for Private Circulation, in 1913. [See post, No. 40.] 59
Ingeborg’s Lamentation. [Autumn winds howl] 62
The Delights of Finn Mac Coul. [Finn Mac Coul ’mongst his joys did number] 65
Carolan’s Lament. [The arts of Greece, Rome and of Eirin’s fair earth] 67
To Icolmcill. [On Icolmcill may blessings pour] 68
The Dying Bard. [O for to hear the hunter’s tread] In the original Manuscript of this Poem the title reads The Wish of the Bard; the text also differs considerably from that which appears in Targum. 70
The Prophecy of Taliesin. [Within my mind] 73
The History of Taliesin. [The head Bard’s place I hold] The original Manuscript of The History of Taliesin possesses many points of interest. In the first place, in addition to sundry variations of text, it enables us to fill up the words in the last line of stanza 3, and the fourth line of stanza 7, which in the pages of Targum are replaced by asterisks. The full lines read: Where died the Almighty’s Son, and Have seen the Trinity. In the second place the Manuscript contains a stanza, following upon the first, which does not occur in the printed text. This stanza reads as follows: I with my Lord and God
On the highest places trod,
When Lucifer down fell
With his army into hell.
I know each little star
Which twinkles near and far;
And I know the Milky Way
Where I tarried many a day. A reduced facsimile of the third page of this Manuscript will be found herewith, facing page 54. 		74
Epigram. On a Miser who had built a Stately Mansion. [Of every pleasure is thy mansion void] 77
The Invitation. [Parry, of all my friends the best] 78
The Rising of Achilles. [Straightway Achilles arose, the belov’d of Jove, round his shoulders] 82
The Meeting of Odysses and Achilles. [Tow’rds me came the Shade of Peleidean Achilles] 85
Hymn To Thetis and Neoptolemus. [Of Thetis I sing with her locks of gold-shine] 90
The Grave of Demos. [Thus old Demos spoke, as sinking sought the sun the western wave] 91
The Sorceries of Canidia. [Father of Gods, who rul’st the sky] 92
The French Cavalier. [The French cavalier shall have my praise] 97
Address To Sleep. [Sweet death of sense, oblivion of ill] 98
The Moormen’s March From Granada. [Reduan, I but lately heard] 101
The Forsaken. [Up I rose, O mother, early] 103
Stanzas. From the Portuguese. [A fool is he who in the lap] 104
My Eighteenth Year. [Where is my eighteenth year? far back] 105
Song. From the Rommany. [The strength of the ox] Another version of this Song, bearing the title “Our Heart is heavy, Brother,” is printed in Marsk Stig’s Daughters and other Songs and Ballads, 1913, pp. 17–18. 106

Where died the Almighty’s Son,

Have seen the Trinity.

I with my Lord and God
On the highest places trod,
When Lucifer down fell
With his army into hell.
I know each little star
Which twinkles near and far;
And I know the Milky Way
Where I tarried many a day.

Note.—Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the first time in this volume.

In 1892 Targum was reprinted, together with The Talisman, by Messrs. Jarrold & Sons, of Norwich, in an edition of 250 copies.

There is a copy of the First Edition of Targum in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C.57.i.6.