LORD BYRON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume IV, Issue 814, 25 March 1870, Page 2

LORD BYRON.

" The Pall Mall Gaze^'has^e following ;-— The writer, of the. article in the current number of the Quartetly Hey vxew on the •; Byron >jy S teryAhas quoted (not quite correctly) the first, stanza of an unpublished piece, which he says was written by the poet « m the autumn of 1814, just before the second proposal\to Miss Milbanke," and after "he had been thrown over by Lady F. W. W. in favor' of an illustrious warrior." By the courtesy of the present owner of Lord Byron's autograph copy (Lady,Fran cis V. Harcourt), we are enabled to present our readers with a correct version of the whole piece, which has intrinsic merits independent of the special interest which at this juncture attaches to.eyerything written by the much assailed pdet. * - : *i . " Go triumph securely, the treacherous ■ VOW ' Thou has broken, I keep but too faithfully now, • v.. ■■■■"", But never again shalt thou be to my heart , " What thou wert, what I fear for a moment thou art. '

To see thee—to love thee—what breast could do more? To love thee—to lose theeii'twere vain to deplore. Not a sigh shall escape from the-heart thus beguil'd, .-.."■ ; I will bear like a man .what I feel like a child. ,;,....-

Though a frown cloud my brow, yet it lowers not on thee, .--■•.- r - Though my heart should seem Heavy ' at least it is free, ' *- But thou, with the pride of ne«r conquest elate— . Alas! even Envy shall feel for thy Fate.. - J

For the first step of Error none e'er could recall, And the woman once fallen for' ever must fall,' Pursue to the last the career she be- > gun, And be false unto many, as faithless to - one.

And they who have loved thee, will leave to mourn, .{ ' ;i ,'-.-..' And they who have hated will lau»h th.cc to scorn ; . ° And her who adored theeyet weep 3to .. foretell;' ;.".;' " ;:. :. ■ : ;f ; • The pangs which wilL punish thy falsehood too well.

It may be as well to take this opportunity of correcting the erroneous date, 1812, assigned to the well-known lines on the " Origin of Love." There can be no question that they were written as early as 1807 as that date is affixed, in the poet'B own handwriting, to the original or copy which he left at Eywood (Lord Ox fordfs seat), and' which is now'in the i possession of Lady P. V. llarcourt. . *...