Note 41 — Chapter VI · LAST WORKS AND DAYS
Reading edition
Compare Diary, 1827, Nov. 7 ('I fairly softened myself like an old fool with recalling old stories, till I was fit for nothing but shedding tears and repeating verses the whole night'), with the famous couplet in 'Rose Aylmer'—
'A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.'