NOTES.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
(1) Page 13.—Marco Bozzaris, one of the best and bravest of the modern Greek chieftains. He fell in a night attack upon the Turkish camp at Laspi, the site of the ancient Platæa, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory.
(2) Page 18.—Alnwick Castle, Northumberlandshire, a seat of the Duke of Northumberland. Written in October, 1822, after visiting the “Home of the Percy’s high-born race.”
(3) Page 20.—From him who once his standard set.—One of the ancestors of the Percy family was an Emperor of Constantinople.
(4) Page 20.—Fought for King George at Lexington.—The late duke. He commanded a detachment of the British army, in the affair at Lexington and Concord, in 1775.
(5) Page 21.—From royal Berwick’s beach of sand.—Berwick was formerly a principality. Richard II. was styled “King of England, France, and Ireland, and Berwick-upon-Tweed.”
(6) Page 30.—Wyoming.—The allusion in the following stanzas can be understood by those only who have read Campbell’s beautiful poem, “Gertrude of Wyoming:” but who has not read it?
(7) Page 46.—“Red Jacket” appeared originally in 1828, soon after the publication of Mr. Cooper’s “Notions of the Americans.”
(8) Page 57.—Magdalen.—Written in 1823, for a love-stricken young officer on his way to Greece. The reader will have the kindness to presume that he died there.
