ol. vi,
_June_, 1830, p. 70.

The four versions of this _Song_, as printed in _The
Monthly Magazine_, in _Romantic Ballads_, in _The Foreign
Quarterly Review_, and in _Targum_, are utterly
different, the opening line being the only one which has
approximately the same reading in all.

Sir Sinclair. [_Sir Sinclair sail'd from the Scottish 51
ground_]

Previously printed in _The Foreign Quarterly Review_,
Vol. vi, _June_, 1830, p. 73.

Hvidfeld. [_Our native land has ever teem'd_] 56

Birting. A Fragment. [_It was late at evening tide_] 59

This "Fragment" consists of fifteen stanzas from the
Ballad _The Giant of Berne and Orm Ungerswayne_, which
was printed complete, for Private Circulation, in 1913.
[_See post_, No. 40.]

Ingeborg's Lamentation. [_Autumn winds howl_] 62

The Delights of Finn Mac Coul. [_Finn Mac Coul_ '_mongst 65
his joys did number_]

Carolan's Lament. [_The arts of Greece_, _Rome and of 67
Eirin's fair earth_]

To Icolmcill. [_On Icolmcill may blessings pour_] 68

The Dying Bard. [_O for to hear the hunter's tread_] 70

In the original Manuscript of this Poem the title reads
_The Wish of the Bard_; the text also differs
considerably from that which appears in _Targum_.

The Prophecy of Taliesin. [_Within my mind_] 73

The History of Taliesin. [_The head Bard's place I 74
hold_]

The original Manuscript of _The History of Taliesin_
possesses many points of interest. In the first place,
in addition to sundry variations of text, it enables us
to fill up the words in the last line of stanza 3, and
the fourth line of stanza 7, which in the pages of
_Targum_ are replaced by asterisks. The full lines read:

_Where died the Almighty's Son_,

and

_Have seen the Trinity_.

In the second place the Manuscript contains a stanza,
following upon the first, which does not occur in the
printed text. This stanza reads as follows:

_I with my Lord and God_
_On the highest places trod_,
_When Lucifer down fell_
_With his army into hell_.
_I know each little star_
_Which twinkles near and far_;
_And I know the Milky Way_
_Where I tarried many a day_.

A reduced facsimile of the third page of this Manuscript
will be found herewith, facing