“charlesʼs wain” (MS III; Poems [1891]; Works [1903])—Noting the reference to Charlesʼs Wain, Helen Gill Viljoen (“Viljoen Papers”, box F.X) remarks that Ruskin could have learned the constellations from Jeremiah Joyce (Joyce, Scientific Dialogues, ) or from Thomas Day (Day, Sandford and Merton, ). For Ruskinʼs interest in this constellation, see also “Harry and Lucy”, Vol. 2, chap. 1; and “The Constellations: Northern, Some of the Zodiac, and Some of the Southern”.

Between lines 24 and 25—The Library Edition incorrectly identifies John James Ruskin as adding the date 9 September 1826. The hand, which is certainly Margaret Ruskinʼs, is identical to that for a similar annotation in MS I.

“[lost]” (Poems [1891]; Works [1903])—W. G. Collingwood comments that the “word in square brackets”, which he supplied, “is wanting in the original” (Poems [4^o, 1891], 1:xxv; Poems [8^o, 1891], 1:xii). In the sole extant manuscript version, there is no evidence of such a word existing. Collingwood assumes Ruskinʼs intention, since, without the word, the second line in the stanza would deviate from the “abab” rhyme scheme that prevails throughout the remainder of poem.