sued by the poet's widow in the Posthumous Poems of 1824. It is written in ink, and opens thus: With what truth I may say Roma Roma Roma Non e piu come era prima 1] My lost William, thou in whom But beneath this pyramid Thou art not. . .if a thing divine II] Where art thou my gentle child, The love of living flowers & weeds Let me think that thro low seeds In the first line of stanza I Ruined creature is cancelled in favour of My lost William, and in the second line sweet in favour of bright, while lived is written more like dived-the fact probably being that Shelley meant at first to write dwelt and changed his mind when he got as far as the d. The fourth line was intended at first to read Which its gentle lustre hid but when he got as far as gentle lust he decided on lustre faintly. There are two false starts for line 5, In the and Thy remains. It was not at first intended to end the stanza with a triplet, for we have the rejected readings In line 9 the word heart was struck out and grief written below it; but as heart was ultimately restored above the line, it is doubtful whether Mary's preference for grief is fully justified. Line I of stanza II was at first Ι Where art thou gone my gentle boy, and there is a cancelled line 2 Dissolved in the living weeds [, of which there is also a doubtful opening, Dissolved into. The adopted line 2 originally began with Whose child I, which was probably cancelled before the line was finished Whose child I think thy spirit feeds not being a likely line. Line 3 begins, literally, with Within, which is doubtless a mere slip for With. Between lines 2 and 3 the words life sweet are cancelled, as is young before gay. Between The and love in line 4 the words grass living are struck out; and over flowers is pencilled leaves, which Mary adopted. For line 6 there are two rejected openings, Could I believe that and A melancholy gladness, and for line 7 Of the living breathing is rejected, while line 8 was originally opened with An unknown power may. It is on page II * 45 v. that the triplet of the first stanza is supplied, occupying the whole page, save that, in the back margin, is written and partly cancelled Think not gold or flattery vile and that the words μνημη των αγαθων αει θαλης are written in the bottom margin again. The letters Wo were probably the beginning of Would. In recording as a comment on his poem that "the memory of the good is ever green", Shelley wrote the Greek words with his customary omission of accents. It is natural to imagine that his grief interrupted him at the close, and prevented his finishing the triplet, which would probably have been completed with some such line as A portion of the life that was. In the lower half of the page where the stanzas to William Shelley end abruptly (II * 46 v.) is written, with the book turned upside down, a short paragraph of the Preface to Prometheus Unbound, which, as well as the longer passage on page II* 47 r. topsy-turvy, has already been dealt with. It should, however, be recorded that the rejected motive of gold and flattery connected with funeral matters is also abortively set down in ink across this longer passage of the Preface to Prometheus, thus: Think not gold, or [ . . . On ten in pencil: page II * 47 v. the following lines are writ One atom of golden cloud, like a fiery star This fragment is No. 7 among the items named in the Auctioneers' catalogue as unpublished matter. In line 3 wild is cancelled in favour of grey; and in line 4 Dancing supersedes Gathered. In the lower half of the page the first stanza of An Exhortation is written in ink with the book held horizontally. The second stanza occurs on page II * 48 v. and the third on II * 48 r.-both written horizontally in ink among other things. The poem is, like most of the others, unheaded, and reads thus as finally drafted here: 1] Camelions feed on light & air- If in this dark world of care Poets could but find the same They would never change their hue Twenty times a day II] Poets are in this cold earth Sent to darkness from their birth III] Give not grandeur, wealth & power If Camelions should devour |