of
the Seven Bishops--one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawney--a popular
proverb throughout Cornwall, the whole of this song was composed
by me in the year 1825. I wrote it under a stag-horned oak in Sir
Beville's Walk in Stowe Wood. It was sent by me anonymously to a
Plymouth paper, and there it attracted the notice of Mr. Davies
Gilbert, who reprinted it at his private press at Eastbourne under
the avowed impression that it was the original ballad. It had
the good fortune to win the eulogy of Sir Walter Scott, who also
deemed it to be the ancient song. It was praised under the same
persuasion by Lord Macaulay and Mr. Dickens.'--_Author's Note._
LXXXIX-XCII
From _The Sea Side and the Fire Side_, 1851; _Birds of Passage_,
_Flight the First_, and _Flight the Second_; and _Flower de
Luce_, 1866. Of these four examples of the picturesque and
taking art of Longfellow, I need say no more than that all are
printed in their integrity, with the exception of the first. This
I leave the lighter by a moral and an application, both of which,
superfluous or not, are remote from the general purpose of this
book: a confession in which I may include the following number,
Mr. Whittier's _Barbara Frietchie_ (_In War-Time_, 1863.)
XCIV
_Nineteenth Century_, March 1878; _Ballads and other Poems_,
1880.
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