26); and the two sons of the lord of the manor died in succession as seemingly was foretold.
2.

"A Voice from the Cloister," whereof I have spoken before.
3.

"A Prophetic Ode,"-- happily hindered from proving true, only because the Rifle movement drove away those vultures, Louis Napoleon's hungry colonels, from our unprotected shores.

There are also in the poem some curious thoughts about the Arctic Circle, its magnetic heat, and possible habitability; also others about thought-reading and the like; all this being long in advance of the age, for that ode was published by Bosworth in 1852.

Also, I anticipated then as now-- "To fly as a bird in the air Despot man doth dare! His humbling cumbersome body at length Light as the lark upsprings, Buoyed by tamed explosive strength And steel-ribbed albatross wings!" With plenty of other curious matter.