48. Artegal and Elidure. [II.]
Rydal Mount. This was written in the year 1815, as a token of affectionate respect for the memory of Milton. 'I have determined,' says he, in his preface to his History of England, 'to bestow the telling over even of these reputed tales, be it for nothing else but in favour of our English Poets and Rhetoricians, who by their wit well know how to use them judiciously.' See the Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Milton's History of England.
49. To a Butterfly. [III.]
1801. Written at the same time and place.
50. A Farewell. [IV]
1802. Composed just before my sister and I went to fetch Mary from Gallowhill, near Scarborough.
51. *Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's 'Castle of Indolence.'
Composed in the Orchard, Grasmere, Town-End. Coleridge living with us much at the time, his son Hartley has said that his father's character and history are here preserved in a livelier way than in anything that has been written about him.
52. *Louisa. After accompanying her on a mountain Excursion. [VI.]
Town-End, 1805.