[96] I have a similar idea in my Poem on finding a Bird's Nest:

'Look! five blue eggs are gleaming there.'

But the numbers are different, so I trust no one will differ with the numbers.

[97] I have also given these lines before; but in thus printing them again, I neither tarnish their value, nor injure their novelty.

[98] See my Sonnet to Sleep:—

'I surely not a man ungently made.'

[99] See my story of the Leech-gatherer, the finest poem in the world,—except this.

[100]

'Ah!' said the Briar, 'blame me not.'

Waterfall and Eglantine.