No more of old romantic sorrows,
For slaughtered Youth or love-lorn Maid!
With sharper grief is Yarrow smitten,
And Ettrick mourns with her their Poet dead.[47]
[36] Compare Yarrow Visited (September, 1814), vol. vi. p. 35.—Ed.
[37] Compare Yarrow Revisited (1831), vol. vii. p. 278.—Ed.
[38] Scott died at Abbotsford, on the 21st September 1832, and was buried in Dryburgh Abbey.—Ed.
[39] Hogg died at Altrive, on the 21st November 1835.—Ed.
[40] Coleridge died at Highgate, on the 25th July 1834.—Ed.
[41] Compare the Stanzas written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson’s “Castle of Indolence” (vol. ii. p. 307)—