1798. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 28.] 

FOOTNOTES:

[1] "Swan Green" should be "Swine Green." It lay about a quarter of a mile to the east of St. James's Lane, where Byron lodged in 1799, at the house of a Mr. Gill. The name appears in a directory of 1799, but by 1815 it had been expunged or changed euphoniæ gratiâ. (See A New Plan of the Town of Nottingham, ... 1744.) 

[1]

 Moore took down "these rhymes" from the lips of Byron's nurse, May Gray, who regarded them as a first essay in the direction of poetry. He questioned their originality.

EPITAPH ON JOHN ADAMS, OF SOUTHWELL, A CARRIER, WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS.

A CARRIER, WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS.

John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell,

John Adams

A Carrier who carried his can to his mouth well;[2]

[2]

He carried so much and he carried so fast,

He could carry no more—so was carried at last;

For the liquor he drank being too much for one,

He could not carry off;—so he's now carri-on.

 September, 1807. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 106.] 

Mrs. Birdmere's House, Southwell

A VERSION OF OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. FROM THE POEM "CARTHON."

FROM THE POEM "CARTHON."

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