LORD BYRON ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY / (One of the poet’s earliest productions.) / 1803 / Why dost thou build the hall? Son of the winged days! Thou lookest / from thy tower to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert / comes; it howls in thy empty court. / OSSIAN

LORD BYRON’S LAST LINES. / MIssolunghi February 1824