Note HW — 1820 (continued 2)

In the edition of 1822, this Effusion is printed in a note to the second of the Desultory Stanzas, which conclude the series of "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent," and with this sentence prefixed to it: "The following stanzas were suggested by the 'Tower of Tell' at Altorf, on the outside walls of which the chief exploits of the hero are painted; it is said to stand upon the very ground where grew the Lime Tree against which his Son was placed when the Father's archery was put to proof under the circumstances so famous in Swiss History."—Ed.