[BI] The title which this Invocation to the Earth bore when first published in the Thanksgiving Ode, with other short pieces chiefly referring to recent public events, in 1816, was "Elegiac Verses, February 1816."—Ed.
[BJ] Compare Hamlet, act I. scene V., l. 183—
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! Ed.
[BK] "The loss of human life, on the French side alone, in the wars consequent on the Revolution, was estimated (in 1815) to have been 4,556,000." (Blair's Chronological Tables, p. 724.)—Ed.
ODE[BL]
Composed January 1816.—Published 1816
Carmina possumus
Donare, et pretium dicere muneri.
Non incisa notis marmora publicis,