--12-13. =Del salon... olvidada= = _en el angulo
obscuro del salon, tal vez olvidada de su dueno_. Becquer,
in his striving after complicated metrical arrangements,
often inverts the word-order in his verse. See also
_Introduction, Versification_, p. lxxii.

19. =arrancarlas=: =las= refers to =Cuanta nota=, which
seems to have here the force of a plural.

24. See _Introduction, Versification_, p. lxv.

=124.=--14. =intervalo=: the standard form is _intervalo_.

=126.=--12. =El nicho a un extremo=: the meaning is, _one
end of the recess_, in which the coffin will be placed.
The graveyards of Spain and Spanish America have lofty
walls with niches or recesses large enough to contain
coffins. After receiving the coffin, the niche is sealed
with a slab that bears the epitaph of the deceased.

=128.=--The Valencian Vicente W. Querol (1836-1889) gave
most of his time to commerce, but he occasionally wrote
verses that had the merit of correctness of language and
strong feeling.

Cf. Blanco Garcia, II, 376-378. For his verses, see
_Rimas_ (_Prologo_ by Pedro A. de Alarcon), 1877; _La
fiesta de Venus_, in the _Almanaque de la Ilustracion_,
1878.

7. =O en el que= = _o en el dia en que_: the reference is
to the anniversaries of the wedding day and the saints'
days of the parents.

=129.=--19. =las que... son=, _what is..._

=131.=--15-16. =la que... agonia= = _la lenta agonia que
sufristeis..._

=133.=--Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817-1901) was
born in Navia (Asturias). He studied medicine but soon
turned to poetry and politics. A pronounced conservative,
he won favor with the government and received appointment page 277
to several important offices including that of
governor of Alicante and Valencia.

Cf. _Introduction_, p. xli; Juan Valera, _Obras poeticas
de Campoamor_, in _Estudios criticos sobre literatura_,
Seville, 1884; Peseux-Richard, in the _Revue hispanique_,
I, 236 f.; Blanco Garcia, II, Cap. V. For his works,
see _Doloras y cantares_, 16th ed., Madrid, 1882; _Los
pequenos poemas_, Madrid, 1882-1883; _Poetica_, 1883; _El
drama universal_, 3d ed., Madrid, 1873; _El licenciado
Torralba_, Madrid, 1888; _Obras escogidas_, Leipzig,
1885-1886; _Obras completas_, 8 vols., Madrid, 1901-03.

=135.=--3. =se va y se viene y se esta=: note the use of
=se= in the sense of _people_, or an indefinite _we_.

5. =Y... procura= = _y si tu afecto no procura volver_.

=136.=--18. See note, p. 3, l. 7.