Verse (at the sight of Newstead Abbey)
Newstead the ruin of remembrances! wrapped in ivies
Humming mourning of trees and hum of deaf waves,
What a pressure of impressions you bursts my chest today !
Your towers as a familiar my pupil [1] greets!...
But today here are other people [2] – former – only trees
Kept a memory of magnificence of your times,
Old towers in fogs stands – its chests blackened
And gale somewhere from the sea their remembrance sings …
The voice of the storm calls wildly, rushes mists of snows, [3]
And a chord of great voices hums over my head
I thought, that then eagle Manfred’s harp
Tore with talons flying in immortality rushed!...
Today – how there terribly!... the skeleton of ruins among bindweeds, [4]
And only grave of faithful dog stands here,
Bats over the church gate are nesting
Which wrinkles, [in] the crown of ivies wrapped
As a bride of the centuries!... and everything changed
Human hands – here only former stars shine!
And only this waterfall One name echoes
And one old man – as last leaf after storm …
- ↑ Pupil of the eye, (not learner or student).
- ↑ Lord Byron sold Newstead Abbey in 1818 to his boyhood friend Thomas Wildman, plantator from Jamaica, and after him his family, until 1861, when its owner became William Frederick Webb, traveller and explorer in Africa.
- ↑ Rushes mists of snows or rushes clouds of snows.
- ↑ Morning-glories or bindweeds.
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