Poetry & Verse
On Leaving Newstead Abbey
By George Gordon, Lord ByronSource: George Gordon, Lord Byron - PoetryDB (Public Domain)319 words
Why dost thou build the hall, Son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day: yet a few years, and the blast of...
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Why dost thou build the hall, Son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day: yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes: it howls in thy empty court. -OSSIAN. Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle: Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choak'd up the rose, which late bloom'd in the way.…
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