X.  POEMS  DEDICATED  TO  NATIONAL  INDEPENDENCE

AND  LIBERTY.
[Headed  in  I.  F.  Notes  '  Sonnets  dedicated  to  Liberty.']

257.  Robert  Jones.
'  Jones  !  as  from  Calais,'  &c.  [Sonnet  in.]

(See  No.  9,  Dedication  to  Descriptive  Sketches.)

This  excellent  Person,  one  of  my  earliest  and  dearest  friends,
died  in  the  year  1835.  We  were  under-graduates  together  of
the  same  year,  at  the  same  college,  and  companions  in  many  a
delightful  ramble  through  his  own  romantic  country  of  North
Wales.  Much  of  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  passed  in  com-
parative solitude ;  which  I  know  was  often  cheered  by  remem-
brance of  our  youthful  adventures,  and  of  the  beautiful  regions
which,  at  home  and  abroad,  we  had  visited  together.  Our  long
friendship  was  never  subject  to  a  moment's  interruption, — and,


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while  revising  these  volumes  for  the  last  time,  I  have  been  so
often  reminded  of  my  loss,  with  a  not  unpleasing  sadness,
that  I  trust  the  Header  will  excuse  this  passing  mention  of  a
Man  who  well  deserves  from  me  something  more  than  so  brief
a  notice.  Let  me  only  add,  that  during  the  middle  part  of  his
life  he  resided  many  years  (as  Incumbent  of  the  Living)  at  a
Parsonage  in  Oxfordshire,  which  is  the  subject  of  the  seventh
of  the  '  Miscellaneous  Sonnets,'  Part  III.
258.  I  grieved  for  Buonaparte.  [Sonnet  iv.]
[Note  No.  183  is  repeated  here.]

259.   The  King  of  Sweden  and  Toussaint  E  Ouverture.
