The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/To the Honble. Mrs. George Lamb

by George Gordon Byron

TO THE HON^BLE. M^RS. GEORGE LAMB.^[1]

1.

The sacred song that on mine ear
Yet vibrates from that voice of thine,
I heard, before, from one so dear—
'T is strange it still appears divine.

2.

But, oh! so sweet that look and tone
To her and thee alike is given;
It seemed as if for me alone
That both had been recalled from Heaven!

3.

And though I never can redeem
The vision thus endeared to me;
I scarcely can regret my dream,
When realised again by thee.

1812.
[First published in The Two Duchesses, by Vere Foster,
1898, p. 374.]

1. [Caroline Rosalie Adelaide St. Jules (1786-1862) married, in 1809, the Hon. George Lamb (see English Bards, etc., line 55, Poetical Works, 1898, i. 300, note 1), fourth son of the first Viscount Melbourne.]