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

George Gordon Lord Byron

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