[434] 1845.
1820.
. . . sombre . . .
FOOTNOTES:
[EX] [
[EXa] See note [EV] to the previous sonnet.—Ed.
[EY] The deer alluded to is the Leigh, a gigantic species long since extinct.—W. W. 1820.
"As one looks upon the peat-moss, with its fragments of birch trees laid bare by the stream, one could easily imagine that the poet had been led, as he gazed, to think of
Those mighty forests, once the bison's screen,
Where stalked the huge deer to his shaggy lair."