r left 21
our bounds_]

The Glory of the Cossacks. [_Quiet Don_!] 24

The Black Shawl. [_On the shawl_, _the black shawl with 27
distraction I gaze_]

Song. From the Russian of Pushkin. [_Hoary man_, 29
_hateful man_!]

The Cossack. An ancient Ballad. [_O'er the field the 30
snow is flying_]

The Three Sons of Budrys. [_With his three mighty sons_, 32
_tall as Ledwin's were once_]

The Banning of the Pest. [_Hie away_, _thou horrid 35
monster_!]

Woinomoinen. [_Then the ancient Woinomoinen_] 37

The Words of Beowulf, Son of Egtheof. [_Every one 39
beneath the heaven_]

The Lay of Biarke. [_The day in East is glowing_] 40

The title of this Ballad as it appears in the original
MS. is _The Biarkemal_.

The Hail-storm. [_For victory as we bounded_] 42

Previously printed (but with very considerable variations
in the text, the first line reading "_When from our ships
we bounded_") in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 136-138.
A final version of the Ballad, written about 1854, was
printed in _Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes and
Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 14-15.

The King and Crown. [_The King who well crown'd does 44
govern the land_]

Ode To a Mountain Torrent. [_O stripling immortal thou 45
forth dost career_]

Previously printed (but with an entirely different text,
the first line reading "_How lovely art thou in thy
tresses of foam_") in _The Monthly Magazine_, Vol. lvi.,
1823, p. 244.

Also printed in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 164-166.

The first stanza of the _Ode_ as printed in _Targum_ does
not figure in the version given in _Romantic Ballads_,
whilst the third stanza of the _Romantic Ballads_ version
is not to be found in _Targum_.

Chloe. [_O we have a sister on earthly dominions_!] 47

Previously printed in _The Monthly Magazine_, Vol. lvi,
1823, p. 437.

National Song. From the Danish of Evald. [_King 49
Christian stood beside the mast_]

Previously printed (under the title _Sea Song_; _from the
Danish of Evald_) in _The Monthly Magazine_, _December_,
1823, p. 437.

Also printed in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 146-148;
and again in _The Foreign Quarterly Review_, V