Note 6 — Chapter VI · 1836-1845. GLENMARY—THE CORSAIR—THE NEW MIRROR.

In a late anthology, this poem of Willis is included under the melodramatic title Two Women. An author’s choice of a title is almost as much to be respected as his text. In this instance, Willis’s own selection was not only much the better, but it is interesting as probably suggested to him by lines that were favorites of his in Longfellow’s translation from Uhland:—