;
and, though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the
sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the
corner of twenty-nine.
and, though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the
sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the
corner of twenty-nine.
Byron
erased.
]
[431] {410}[Byron told Medwin that he wrote "Lioni's soliloquy one
moonlight night, after coming from the Benzoni's. "--_Conversations_,
1824, p. 177. ]
[ec] _High o'er the music_----. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[432] {411}["At present, I am on the invalid regimen myself. The
Carnival--that is, the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights,
had knocked me up a little. . . . The mumming closed with a masked ball at
the Fenice, where I went, as also to most of the ridottos, etc. , etc.
;
and, though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the
sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the
corner of twenty-nine.
"So we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
"For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And Love itself have rest.
"Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon. "
Letter to Moore, February 28, 1817, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 59. ]
[ed] {412}_Suggesting dreams or unseen Symmetry_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[ee] _Which give their glitter lack, and the vast AEther_. --[MS. M.
erased. ]
[ef] ----_seaborn palaces_. --[Alternative reading.
[431] {410}[Byron told Medwin that he wrote "Lioni's soliloquy one
moonlight night, after coming from the Benzoni's. "--_Conversations_,
1824, p. 177. ]
[ec] _High o'er the music_----. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[432] {411}["At present, I am on the invalid regimen myself. The
Carnival--that is, the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights,
had knocked me up a little. . . . The mumming closed with a masked ball at
the Fenice, where I went, as also to most of the ridottos, etc. , etc.
;
and, though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the
sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the
corner of twenty-nine.
"So we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
"For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And Love itself have rest.
"Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon. "
Letter to Moore, February 28, 1817, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 59. ]
[ed] {412}_Suggesting dreams or unseen Symmetry_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[ee] _Which give their glitter lack, and the vast AEther_. --[MS. M.
erased. ]
[ef] ----_seaborn palaces_. --[Alternative reading.
