TEN YEARS' SILENCE.
91
1853.
"Against its fountain upward runs
The current of my days."
"Against its fountain upward runs
The current of my days."
The expression, "whirligig of Time," is borrowed from Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night" (act v. sc. ult,).
"Lady Clare." This poem originally opened thus:
"Lord Ronald courted Lady Clare,
I trow they did not part in scorn;
Lord Ronald, her cousin, courted her,
And they will wed the morrow morn."
1842-1850.
I trow they did not part in scorn;
Lord Ronald, her cousin, courted her,
And they will wed the morrow morn."
1842-1850.
The stanza which now stands as the sixteenth,
"The lily-white doe Lord Ronald had brought," &c.,
was added in 1851.
We have already seen that the ballad of "Lady Clare" was suggested by Miss Ferrier's novel of "The Inheritance."
"The Lord of Burleigh." Unaltered.
