Or--

"Or dwells not in thy memory still,
Heard frequent in thine hour of ill."

STANZA XV.--"Wrung forth by pride, _regret_, and shame."

_James._--I have ventured to submit to your choice--

"Wrung forth by pride, _and rage_, and shame."

_Regret_ appearing a faint epithet amidst such a combination of
bitter feelings.

_Scott._--Granted.

{p.075} IBID.--"So mingle banner, wain, and gun,
Where in one tide of horror run
The warriors," etc.

_James._--In the first place, warriors _running_ in a tide is a
clashing metaphor; in the second, the warriors _running_ at all is a
little homely. It is true, no doubt; but really running is little
better than scampering. For these causes, one or both, I think the
lines should be altered.

_Scott._--You are wrong in one respect. A tide is always said to
_run_,--but I thought of the tide without attending to the
equivoque, which must be altered. Read,--

"Where the tumultuous flight rolls on."

STANZA XVI.--"---- found _gallant_ grave."

_James._--This is surely a singular epithet to a grave. I think the
whole of this stanza eminently fine; and, in particular, the
conclusion.

_Scott._--"---- found _soldier's_ grave." ----

STANZA XXI.--"_Redoubted_ Picton's soul of fire."

_James._--From long association, this epithet strikes me as
conveying a semi-ludicrous idea.

_Scott._--It is here appropriate, and your objection seems merely
personal to your own association.

IBID.--"Through his friends' heart to _wound_ his own."

_James._--Quaere--_Pierce_, or rather _stab_--_wound_ is faint.

_Scott._--"Pierce."

STANZA XXII.--"Forgive, _brave fallen_, the imperfect lay."

_James._--Don't like "brave fallen" at all; nor "appropriate
praise," three lines after. The latter in particular is prosaic.

_Scott._--"Forgive, _brave dead_,"
---- "_The dear-earned praise._"

{p.076} CHAPTER XXXVI.

Field of Waterloo Published. -- Revision of Paul's Letters,
etc. -- Quarrel and Reconciliation with Hogg. -- Football
Match at Carterhaugh. -- Songs on the Banner of Buccleuch.
-- Dinner at Bowhill. -- Design for a Piece of Plate to the
Sutors of Selkirk. -- Letters to the Duke of Buccleuch,
Joanna Baillie, and Mr. Morritt.

1815.