Note 124 — LORD BYRON: (continued 5)
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Upon the same occasion, indeed, he wrote some verses in a spirit not quite so generous, of which a few of the opening lines is all I shall give:—
"And thou wert sad—yet I was not with thee! And thou wert sick—and yet I was not near. Methought that Joy and Health alone could be Where I was not, and pain and sorrow here. And is it thus?—it is as I foretold, And shall be more so:—" &c. &c.