FOOTNOTES:
[A] In Coleridge's Friend, December 21.—Ed.
[B] Compare Aubrey de Vere's Picturesque Sketches of Greece and Turkey, vol. i. chap. viii. p. 204.—Ed.
In The Friend (edition 1812), the following footnote occurs—
"... universal Pan,
Knit with the graces and the hours in dance,
Led on the eternal spring.—Milton." Ed.
"HAIL, ZARAGOZA! IF WITH UNWET EYE"
Composed 1809.—Published 1815
Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
We can approach, thy sorrow to behold,
Yet is the heart not pitiless nor cold;
Such spectacle demands not tear or sigh.
These desolate remains are trophies high 5
Of more than martial courage in the breast
Of peaceful civic virtue:[A] they attest
Thy matchless worth to all posterity.
Blood flowed before thy sight without remorse;
Disease consumed thy vitals; War upheaved 10
The ground beneath thee with volcanic force:
Dread trials! yet encountered and sustained
Till not a wreck of help or hope remained,
And law was from necessity[1] received.[B]