C65

BEAUTIES

OF

BYRON.

Price f 125.'

BEAUTIES

OF

BYRON:

SELECTED

BY

Alfred Howard, Esq.

PUBLISHED BY NAYLER & Co. BOOKSELLERS,

AMSTERDAM.

MDCCCXXXVII.

BEAUTIES

OF

BYRON.

ANACREONTIC SONG.

FILL the Goblet again! for I never before

Felt the glow that now gladdens my heart to its core; Let us drink! who would not? since through life's varied In the Goblet alone, no deception is found.

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I have tried, in its turn, all that life can supply;
I have basked in the beam of a dark rolling eye;
I have loved! who has not? but what heart can declare
That pleasure existed, while passion was there?

In the days of my youth, when the heart's in the spring, And dreams that Affection can never take wing,

I had friends! who has not? but what tongue will avow That friends, rosy Wine! are so faithfull as thou?

The breast of a mistress some boy may estrange
Friendship shifts with the sunbeam

canst change;

Thou never

Thou grow'st old! who does not? but on earth what appears Whose virtues, like thine, still increase with its years?