And one green island."

Works of W. Wordsworth, 1889, p. 220.] 

[33] [Compare the Ancient Mariner on the water-snakes— 

[33]

"O happy living things! no tongue

Their beauty might declare,"

Ancient Mariner, Part IV. lines 282, 283. 

 There is, too, in these lines (352-354), as in many others, an echo of Wordsworth. In the Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle it is told how the "two undying fish" of Bowscale Tarn, and the "eagle lord of land and sea" ministered to the shepherd-lord. It was no wonder that the critics of 1816 animadverted on Byron's "communion" with the Lakers. "He could not," writes a Critical Reviewer (Series V. vol. iv. pp. 567-581), "carry many volumes on his tour, but among the few, we will venture to predict, are found the two volumes of poems lately republished by Mr. Wordsworth.... Such is the effect of reading and enjoying the poetry of Mr. W., to whose system (ridiculed alike by those who could not, and who would not understand it) Lord Byron, it is evident, has become a tardy convert, and of whose merits in the poems on our table we have a silent but unequivocal acknowledgment."] 

[34] {28}[Compare the well-known lines in Lovelace's "To Althea—From Prison"— 

[34]

"Minds innocent and quiet take

That for an hermitage."]

[h] Here follows in the MS.— 

[h]

 Nor stew I of my subjects one— What sovereign { hath so little yet so much hath } done? 

{

hath so little

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