CVII-CIX
By permission of Messrs. Macmillan. From _Empedocles on Etna_
(1853). As regards the second number, it may be noted that Sohrab,
being in quest of his father Rustum, to whom he is unknown,
offers battle as one of the host of the Tartar King Afrasiab,
to any champion of the Persian Kai Khosroo. The challenge is
accepted by Rustum, who fights as a nameless knight (like Wilfrid
of Ivanhoe at the Gentle and Joyous Passage of Ashby), and so
becomes the unwitting slayer of his son. For the story of the
pair the poet refers his readers to Sir John Malcom's _History of
Persia_. See _Poems_, by Matthew Arnold (Macmillan), i. 268, 269.
CX, CXI
_Ionica_ (Allen, 1891). By permission of the Author. _School
Fencibles_ (1861) was 'printed, not published, in 1877.' _The
Ballad for a Boy_, Mr. Cory writes, 'was never printed till
this year.'
CXII
By permission of the Author. This ballad, which was suggested,
Mr. Meredith tells me, by the story of Bendigeid Vran, the son
of Llyr, in the _Mabinogion_ (iii. 121-9), is reprinted from
_Modern Love_ (1862), but it originally appeared (_circ._ 1860)
in _Once a Week_, a forgotten print the source of not a little
unforgotten stuff--as _Evan Harrington_ and the first part of
_The Cloister and the Hearth_.
CXIII
From the fourth and last book of _Sigurd the Volsung_, 1877.
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