guests of King Atli, husband to their sister Gudrun, refused to tell him the whereabouts of the treasure of Fafnir, whom Sigurd slew; and this is the manner of their taking and the beginning of King Atli's vengeance.
CXIV
English Illustrated Magazine, January 1890, and Lyrical Poems (Macmillan, 1891). By permission of the Author: with whose sanction I have omitted four lines from the last stanza.
cxv
By permission of Sir Alfred Lyall. Cornhill Magazine, Sep- tember 1868, and Verses Written in India (Kegan Paul, 1889). The second title is: A Soliloquy t/iat way have been delivered in India, June 1857; and this is further explained by the following 'extract from an Indian newspaper': 'They would have spared life to any of iheir English prisoners who should consent to profess Mahomctanism by repeating the usual short formula; but only one half-caste cared to save himself that way.' Then comes the de- scription, Moriturus Loquitur, and next the poem.
CXVI CXVIII
From Songs before Sunrise (Chatto and Windus, 1877), and the third series of Poems and Ballads (Chatto and Windus, 1889). By permission of the Author.
CXIX, CXX
The Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte (Chatto and Windus, 1886). By permission of Author and Publisher. The Rcvcillt was spoken before a Union Meeting at San Francisco at the beginning of the Civil War and appeared in a volume of the Author's poems in 1867. What the BulUt Sang is much later work: dating, thinks Mr. Harte, from '79 or '80.
��St. James's M.igatine, October 1877, and At the Sign of the Lyre (Kegan Paul, 1889). By permission of the Author.
��St. James's Ga*ette,2Dl\\ July 1888, and Grass of Parnassus (Ixing- n-.iins, 1888). By permission of Author and Publisher. Written in memory of Gordon's betrayal and death, but while there were yet li >pcs and rumours of escape.
��Underwoods (Chatto and Windus, 1886). By permission of the Publishers.
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