1. WHEN We two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. They know not I knew thee, Who knew thee too well: Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tell. 4. In secret we met In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears. 1808. STANZAS FOR MUSIC.* "O Lachrymarum fons, tenero sacros "Pectore te, pia Nympha, seusit." 1. Gray's Poemata. THERE's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay; These Verses were given by Lord Byron to Mr. Power, Strand, who has published them, with very beautiful music by Sir John Stevenson. "Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past. 2. Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess: The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again. |