ANOTHER SCOTT POEM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)

ANOTHER SCOTT POEM.

DISCOVERY BY PROFESSOR. Much interest has been shown at Edinburgh in Professor Warwick Bond's discovery of a hitherto unpublished poem of Sir Walter Scott on Lord Byron. Professor Bond made tho discovery when dealing with the Marlay collection of letters (1778-1812). It is his opinion that the poem, was preserved by James T. T. Tisdall, a school friend of Shelley. In the autumn of 1825 Tisdall was paying a round of visits in Scotland, and on November 1 wroto to his mother from Mertoun House, the seat of the Harden Scotts, saying that ho was going to visit Sir Walter for three days. Professor Bond states that there is no other record of his visit to Abbotsford, and no account of this one is preserved, but in his packet of " Songs " there was a folder endorsed by Mr. Marlay, " Verses in imitation to Sir W. Scott 'by J.T.T.," and on opening it is was found to contain Scott's original sonnet as well as Tisdall's parody. The poem contains six stanzas, the last one reading:— My b.lrk is yet upon the shore And thine is launched upon the sea Which eye of man may not explore Of fathomless eternity; Perchance in some far future land AVe yet may meet, we yet may dwell; If not, from off this mortal strand, Immortal! fare thee well.