Compare the sonnet entitled Captivity, Mary Queen of Scots, composed and published in 1819 (p. 191); also the sonnet, composed in 1833, entitled Mary Queen of Scots (Landing at the mouth of the Derwent, Workington).—Ed.


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[290] 1820.

ms.

But . . .

[291] 1820.

Meek effluence—that, while I trod

With downcast eye in narrow space,

Did'st vivify the wintry sod,