Lord Byron, So, we’ll go no more a-roving

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.

Lord Byron So, we’ll go no more a-roving stanza 2 (lines 5–8) written 1817; first published 1830

Edition: The Works of Lord Byron: Poetry, vol. 4, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (John Murray; Wikisource text dated 1905)
Read the whole text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Lord_Byron_(ed._Coleridge,_Prothero)/Poetry/Volume_4/So_we'll_go_no_more_a-roving
Rights: Public domain: Byron died in 1824; the poem was first published in 1830.

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