[BC] Compare this description of the news of Waterloo spreading over the nations with the effect of the lady's laugh in To Joanna. See "Poems on the Naming of Places" (vol. ii. p. 159).—Ed.
[BD] See note A on preceding page.—Ed.
[BE] London.—Ed.
[BF] In Westminster Abbey.—Ed.
[BG] Compare the Psalter, civ. 32.—Ed.
[BH] Compare the Psalter, passim, e.g. xlvi., lxvi., cvi., and Shakespeare, Henry V. act IV. scene i.: "If these men have defeated the law and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God: war is his beadle, war is his vengeance."—Ed.
INVOCATION TO THE EARTH[BI]
FEBRUARY, 1816