This was composed on the beach near Calais, in the autumn of 1802.
198. *Sonnet XXXVI.
'Calvert! it must not be,' &c.
This young man, Raisley Calvert, to whom I was so much indebted, died at Penrith, 179-.
PART II.
199. *Sonnet IV.
'From the dark chambers,' &c.
Composed in Edinburgh, during my Scotch tour with Mary and Sara, in the year 1814. Poor Gillies never rose above the course of extravagance in which he was at that time living, and which soon reduced him to poverty and all its degrading shifts, mendicity being far from the worst. I grieve whenever I think of him; for he was far from being without genius, and had a generous heart—which is not always to be found in men given up to profusion. He was nephew of Lord Gillies, the Scotch judge, and also of the historian of Greece. He was cousin of Miss Margaret Gillies, who painted so many portraits with success in our house.