167.  *  View  from  the  Top  of  Black  Comb,    [xxxviii.]

1813.  Mary  and  I,  as  mentioned  in  the  Epistle  to  Sir  G.
Beaumont,  lived  some  time  under  its  shadow.
168.  *  The  Haunted  Tree,    [xxxix.]

1819.  This  tree  grew  in  the  park  of  Eydal,  and  I  have  often
listened  to  its  creaking  as  described.
169.  *  The  Triad,    [xl.]

'  Kydal  Mount,  1828.  The  girls  Edith  Mary  Southey,  my
daughter  Dora,  and  Sarah  Coleridge.'  More  fully  on  this  and
others  contemporaneously  written,  is  the  following  letter  :

To  G.  H.  Gordon,  Esq.
Rydal  Mount,  Dec.  15,  1828.
How  strange  that  any  one  should  be  puzzled  with  the  name
'  Triad'  after  reading  the  poem  !  I  have  turned  to  Dr.  Johnson,
and  there  find  *  Triad,  three  united?  and  not  a  word  more,  as
nothing  more  was  needed.  I  should  have  been  rather  mortified
if  you  had  not  liked  the  piece,  as  I  think  it  contains  some  of
the  happiest  verses  I  ever  wrote.  It  had  been  promised  several
years  to  two  of  the  party  before  a  fancy  fit  for  the  performance
struck  me  ;  it  was  then  thrown  off  rapidly,  and  afterwards
revised  with  care.  During  the  last  week  I  wrote  some  stanzas
on  the  Power  of  Sound,  which  ought  to  find  a  place  in  my  larger
work  if  aught  should  ever  come  of  that.
