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I	A
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My Sister my sweet Sister if a name	B
Dearer and purer were it should be thine	C
Mountains and seas divide us but I claim	B
No tears but tenderness to answer mine	C
Go where I will to me thou art the same	B
A loved regret which I would not resign z	D
There yet are two things in my destiny	D
A world to roam through and a home with thee	D
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II	A
	-
The first were nothing had I still the last	E
It were the haven of my happiness	F
But other claims and other ties thou hast aa	G
And mine is not the wish to make them less	H
A strange doom is thy father's son's and past ab	I
Recalling as it lies beyond redress	H
Reversed for him our grandsire's fate of yore	J
He had no rest at sea nor I on shore	J
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III	A
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If my inheritance of storms hath been	K
In other elements and on the rocks	L
Of perils overlooked or unforeseen	M
I have sustained my share of worldly shocks	L
The fault was mine nor do I seek to screen	M
My errors with defensive paradox ac	D
I have been cunning in mine overthrow	N
The careful pilot of my proper woe	N
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IV	O
	-
Mine were my faults and mine be their reward	P
My whole life was a contest since the day	Q
That gave me being gave me that which marred	R
The gift a fate or will that walked astray	Q
And I at times have found the struggle hard	R
And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay	Q
But now I fain would for a time survive	O
If but to see what next can well arrive	O
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V	O
	-
Kingdoms and Empires in my little day	Q
I have outlived and yet I am not old	S
And when I look on this the petty spray	Q
Of my own years of trouble which have rolled	S
Like a wild bay of breakers melts away	Q
Something I know not what does still uphold	S
A spirit of slight patience not in vain	T
Even for its own sake do we purchase Pain	T
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VI	O
	-
Perhaps the workings of defiance stir	U
Within me or perhaps a cold despair	V
Brought on when ills habitually recur	U
Perhaps a kinder clime or purer air	V
For even to this may change of soul refer ad	W
And with light armour we may learn to bear	V
Have taught me a strange quiet which was not	X
The chief companion of a calmer lot ae	Q
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VII	O
	-
I feel almost at times as I have felt	Y
In happy childhood trees and flowers and brooks	Z
Which do remember me of where I dwelt	Y
Ere my young mind was sacrificed to books af	O
Come as of yore upon me and can melt	Y
My heart with recognition of their looks	Z
And even at moments I could think I see	O
Some living thing to love but none like thee ag	A2
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VIII	O
	-
Here are the Alpine landscapes which create	B2
A fund for contemplation to admire	C2
Is a brief feeling of a trivial date	B2
But something worthier do such scenes inspire	C2
Here to be lonely is not desolate	D2
For much I view which I could most desire	U
And above all a Lake I can behold	S
Lovelier not dearer than our own of old	S
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IX	O
	-
Oh that thou wert but with me but I grow	N
The fool of my own wishes and forget	E2
The solitude which I have vaunted so	N
Has lost its praise in this but one regret	E2
There may be others which I less may show	N
I am not of the plaintive mood and yet	E2
I feel an ebb in my philosophy	O
And the tide rising in my altered eye ah	G
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X	O
	-
I did remind thee of our own dear Lake	F2
By the old Hall which may be mine no more	J
Leman's is fair but think not I forsake	F2
The sweet remembrance of a dearer shore	J
Sad havoc Time must with my memory make	F2
Ere that or thou can fade these eyes before	J
Though like all things which I have loved they are	G2
Resigned for ever or divided far	G2
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XI	O
	-
The world is all before me I but ask	H2
Of Nature that with which she will comply	O
It is but in her Summer's sun to bask	H2
To mingle with the quiet of her sky	O
To see her gentle face without a mask	H2
And never gaze on it with apathy	O
She was my early friend and now shall be	O
My sister till I look again on thee	O
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XII	O
	-
I can reduce all feelings but this one	I2
And that I would not for at length I see	O
Such scenes as those wherein my life begun	I2
The earliest even the only paths for me ai	O
Had I but sooner learnt the crowd to shun	I2
I had been better than I now can be	O
The Passions which have torn me would have slept	J2
I had not suffered and thou hadst not wept	J2
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XIII	O
	-
With false Ambition what had I to do	K2
Little with Love and least of all with Fame	B
And yet they came unsought and with me grew	K2
And made me all which they can make a Name	B
Yet this was not the end I did pursue	K2
Surely I once beheld a nobler aim	B
But all is over I am one the more	J
To baffled millions which have gone before	J
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XIV	O
	-
And for the future this world's future may aj	L2
From me demand but little of my care	V
I have outlived myself by many a day ak	H2
Having survived so many things that were	U
My years have been no slumber but the prey	Q
Of ceaseless vigils for I had the share	V
Of life which might have filled a century	O
Before its fourth in time had passed me by	O
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XV	O
	-
And for the remnant which may be to come al	M2
I am content and for the past I feel	N2
Not thankless for within the crowded sum	O2
Of struggles Happiness at times would steal	N2
And for the present I would not benumb	O2
My feelings farther Nor shall I conceal	N2
That with all this I still can look around	P2
And worship Nature with a thought profound	P2
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XVI	O
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For thee my own sweet sister in thy heart	Q2
I know myself secure as thou in mine	C
We were and are I am even as thou art am	O2
Beings who ne'er each other can resign	C
It is the same together or apart	Q2
From Life's commencement to its slow decline	C
We are entwined let Death come slow or fast an	R2
The tie which bound the first endures the last	E
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First published Letters and Journals ii	A

George Gordon Byron

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