ABSTRACT
Date of composition unknown, but probably October 1818 (‘autumnal sun’) at Este. The draft is among material dating from autumn 1818 to spring 1819. Lines 3-4 might suggest Herculaneum or Pompeii, but leaves of the vines were already in decay when S. travelled south from Este on 5 November (L ii 45). No transcript by Mary S. is known.
