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 stanza 27 of the German ballad, which the reader can compare with the translated stanza:—

So far as I am aware, the first English rendering of Lenore appeared in the Monthly Magazine, done by William Taylor of Norwich, and entitled Ellenore. It takes the literary form of a modern-antique, and throws the period of the ballad back from the Seven Years' War to crusading times. Next, Sir Walter Scott, in 1796, published a version anonymously. He borrowed from his predecessor (not from Bürger) the well-known lines—

(only substituting the word "along" for "across"). Considering that, according to Scott's and Taylor's translations,