So, We’ll Go No More a Roving

by Lord Byron · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

So, we’ll go no more a roving

So late into the night,

Though the heart be still as loving,

And the moon be still as bright.


For the sword outwears its sheath,

And the soul wears out the breast,

And the heart must pause to breathe,

And love itself have rest.


Though the night was made for loving,

And the day returns too soon,

Yet we’ll go no more a roving

By the light of the moon.

#19th century #england #fatigue #lyric #restraint #romantic

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