The edition by Saliou was made with the help of photographs and facsimilia; the height of the letters is given by her according to the facsimilia.

I doubt if any modern poet can boast of as loud acclaim or as liberal reward as Longfellow received for Evangeline or Tennyson for the Idylls, but his fate today is somewhat kinder than that of Poe or Whitman, and much gentler than the stony dole dealt out to poets in the nineties and noughties.

And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration.

We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief. […]