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 shown how false and vain, and therefore how contrary to God's will, the ' ambitious and bloudie practices of the Spaniards ' were.

��Tiresias and Other Poems, 1885. By permission of Messrs. Macmillan. Included at Lord Tennyson's own suggestion. For the noble feat of arms (a^th October 1854) thus nobly com- memorated, see Kinglake (v. i. 102-66). ' The three hundred of the Heavy Brigade who made this famous charge were the Scots Greys and the second squadron of Enniskillings, the re- mainder of the " Heavy Brigade " subsequently dashing up to their support. The " three " were Scarlett's aide-de-camp, Elliot, and the trumpeter, and Shegog the orderly, who had been close behind him.' Author's Note.

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The Return of the Guards, and other Poems, 1866. By permis- sion of Messrs. Macmillan. As to the first, which deals with an incident of the war with China, and is presumably referred to in 1860, ' Some Seiks and a private of the Buffs (or East Kent Regiment) having remained behind with the grog-carts, fell into the hands of the Chinese. On the next morning they were brought before the authorities and commanded to perform the Ko tou. The Seiks obeyed ; but Moyse, the English soldier, declaring that he would not prostrate himself before any Chinaman alive, was immediately knocked upon the head and his body thrown upon a dunghill.' Quoted by the author from The Times. The Elgin of line 6 is Henry Bruce, eighth Lord Elgin (1811-1863), then Ambassador to China, and afterwards Governor-General of India. Compare The- ology in Extremis (post, p. 309). Of the second, which Mr. Saints- bury describes ' as one of the most lofty, insolent, and passionate things concerning this matter that our time has produced,' Sir Francis notes that the incident no doubt a part of the conquest of Sindh was told him by Sir Charles Napier, and that ' Truckee ' (line 12)= 'a stronghold in the Desert, supposed to be unassailable and impregnable.'

XCVIII, XCIX

By permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. Dramatic Lyrics, 1845; Cornhill Af+fasine, June 1871, and Pacchiarotto, 1876, Works, iv. and xiv. 1 can find nothing about Herve Kiel.

��The two first are from the ' Song of Myself,' leaves of Grass (185^); the others from Drum Tafs (i860". See Leaves of Gran (Philadelphia, 1884), pp. 60, 63-63, 222, and 246.

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