From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Farish, long since deceased. The verses were by a brother of his, a man of promising genius, who died young.—W. W. 1842.
Charles Farish was the author of
The Minstrels of Winandermere
.—Ed.
Compare Milton's "grinding sword,"
Paradise Lost
, vi. l. 329.—Ed.