• From “Childe Harold,” Canto II.
      ’T IS night, when Meditation bids us feel
      We once have loved, though love is at an end:
      The heart, lone mourner of its baffled zeal,
      Though friendless now, will dream it had a friend.
      Who with the weight of years would wish to bend,
      When Youth itself survives young Love and joy?
      Alas! when...