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XCVIII, XCIX
By permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. _Dramatic Lyrics_,
1845; _Cornhill Magazine_, June 1871, and _Pacchiarotto_, 1876,
Works, iv. and xiv. I can find nothing about Herve Riel.
C-CIII
The two first are from the 'Song of Myself,' _Leaves of Grass_
(1855); the others from _Drum Taps_ (1865). See _Leaves of Grass_
(Philadelphia, 1884), pp. 60, 62-63, 222, and 246.
CIV, CV
By permission of Messrs. Macmillan. Dated severally 1857 and 1859.
CVI
_Edinburgh Courant_, 1852. Compare _The Loss of the 'Birkenhead'_
in _The Return of the Guards, and other Poems_ (Macmillan, 1883),
pp. 256-58. Of the troopship _Birkenhead_ I note that she sailed
from Queenstown on the 7th January 1852, with close on seven
hundred souls on board; that the most of these were soldiers--of
the Twelfth Lancers, the Sixtieth Rifles, the Second, Sixth,
Forty-third, Forty-fifth, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and
Ninety-first Regiments; that she struck on a rock (26th February
1852) off Simon's Bay, South Africa; that the boats would hold
no more than a hundred and thirty-eight, and that, the women
and children being safe, the men that were left--four hundred
and fifty-four, all told--were formed on deck by their officers,
and went down with the ship, true to colours and discipline till
the end.
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