Reprinted, with the text substantially revised, in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 164–166. Again reprinted in Targum, 1835, pp. 45–46.
The majority of Borrow’s contributions to The Monthly Magazine appeared under the signature ‘George Olaus Borrow.’ Dr. Knapp has recorded that he found in the Corporation Library at Norwich
a book on ancient Danish Literature, by Olaus Wormius, carrying several marginal notes in Borrow’s handwriting. The suggestion that it was from this book that Borrow derived the pseudonymous second Christian name which he employed in The Monthly Magazine is not an unreasonable one.
P. 245.
Death. [Perhaps ’tis folly, but still I feel]
Reprinted (under the amended title Thoughts on Death, and with some small textual variations) in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 169–170.
Another version of the same poem was printed (under the title A Survey of Death, the first line reading My blood is freezing, my senses reel) in Mollie Charane and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 11–12.
P. 246.
Mountain Song. [That pathway before ye, so narrow and gray]
Pp. 306–309.