Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto I

Excerpt from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto I

Beholds the rainbow4 of her future years, Before whose heavenly hues all sorrow disappears.

Young Peri5 of the West -'tis well for me My years already doubly number thine My loveless eye unmoved may gaze on thee, And safely view thy ripening beauties shine Happy, I ne'er shall see them in decline; Happier, that while all younger hearts shall bleed, Mine shall escape the doom thine eyes assign To those whose admiration shall succeed, But mixed with pangs to Love's even loveliest hours decreed.

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