Stanza's To Augusta - Lord Byron
In this day of
adversity and turmoil its good to be reminded why love prevails
despite ills all. Here is poetic inspiration for today's groom and
unwavering love to his bride:
Stanza's To
Augusta
Though the day
of my destiny's over,
And the star of
my fate hath declined,
Thy soft heart
refused to discover
The faults
which so many could find;
Though thy soul
with my grief was acquainted,
It shrunk not
to share it with me,
And the love
which my spirit hath painted
It never hath
found but in thee.
Then when
nature around me is smiling,
The last smile
which answers to mine,
I do not
believe it beguiling,
Because it
reminds me of thine;
And when winds
are at war with the ocean,
As the breasts
I believed in with me,
If their
billows excite an emotion,
It is that they
bear me from thee.
Though the rock
of my last hope is shivered,
And its
fragments are sunk in the wave,
Though I feel
that my soul is delivered.
To pain ― it
shall not be its slave;
There is many a
pang to pursue me:
They me crush,
but they shall not contemn―
They may
torture, but shall not subdue me―
'Tis of thee
that I think―not of them.
Though human
thou didst not deceive me,
Though woman
thou didst not forsake,
Though loved,
thou forborest to grieve me,
Though
slandered , thou never couldst shake―
Though trusted
, thou didst not disclaim me,
Though parted ,
it was not to fly,
Though
watchful, 'twas not to defame me,
Nor mute, that
the world might belie.
Yet, I blame
not the world, nor despise it,
Nor the war of
the many with one―
If my soul was
not fitted to prize it,
'Twas folly not
sooner to shun:
And if dearly
that error hath cost me,
And more than I
once could foresee,
I have found
that whatever it lost me,
It could not
deprive me of thee.
From the wreck
of the past, which hath perished.
Thus much I at
least may recall,
It hath taught
me that which I most cherished
Deserved to be
dearest of all:
In the desert a
fountain is springing,
In the wide
waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in
the solitude singing
Which speaks to
my spirit of thee. ―Lord Byron
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