Note 3 — THE IDIOT BOY.
Reading edition
Footnote 3 (return): Collins’s Ode on the death of Thomson, the last written, I believe, of the poems which were published during his life-time. This Ode is also alluded to in the next stanza.
Reading edition
Footnote 3 (return): Collins’s Ode on the death of Thomson, the last written, I believe, of the poems which were published during his life-time. This Ode is also alluded to in the next stanza.