So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
by George Gordon, Lord Byron

(composed: 28 February 1817, Venice)


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  1.   So, we’ll go no more a-roving
  2.      So late into the night,
  3.   Though the heart be still as loving,
  4.      And the moon be still as bright.

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  5.   For the sword outwears its sheath,
  6.      And the soul wears out the breast,
  7.   And the heart must pause to breathe,
  8.      And Love itself have rest.

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  9.   Though the night was made for loving,
  10.      And the day returns too soon,
  11.   Yet we’ll go no more a-roving
  12.      By the light of the moon.

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