RECOLLECTIONS
To none so fitly the sprays I send
Could come as at hail of the hand of a friend.
Could come as at hail of the hand of a friend.
1878.
It is evident that "Recollections" was addressed to W. B. Scott, and was intended as the Dedication to Poems and Ballads: Second Series, 1878, but was held back when Swinburne recollected his promise to dedicate that volume to Richard Burton. Poems and Ballads: Third Series, 1889, was inscribed to Scott in a poem which contains two lines that occur in "Recollections." —[E. G.]
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