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[Sub-Footnote iv: In the 1793 edition this line reads "Asleep on
Minden's charnel plain afar. " The 'errata', list inserted in some copies
of that edition gives "Bunker's charnel hill. "--Ed. ]


[Sub-Footnote v: Sugh, a Scotch word, expressive, as Mr. Gilpin explains
it, of the sound of the motion of a stick through the air, or of the
wind passing through the trees. See Burns' 'Cottar's Saturday
Night'. --W. W. 1793.

The line is in stanza ii. , l. 1:

November chill blaws loud, wi' angry sugh. --Ed. ]


[Sub-Footnote vi: This long passage occupies, in the edition of 1793,
the place of lines 297-314 in the final text given above. --Ed.
]


[Sub-Footnote vii:

"So break those glittering shadows, human joys"

(YOUNG). --W. W. 1793.

The line occurs 'Night V, The Complaint', l. 1042, or l. 27 from the
end. --Ed. ]


[Sub-Footnote viii:

"Charming the night-calm with her powerful song. "

A line of one of our older poets. --W. W. 1793.

This line I have been unable to discover, but see Webster and Dekker in
'Westward Hoe', iv. c.

"Charms with her excellent voice an awful silence through all this
building.