Lord Byron – Childe Harold Canto 3 part 7
Childe Harold dallies beside “Clear placid Leman!” and says “This quiet sail is a noiseless wing to waft me from distraction;….”. He looks to the night sky “Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!” and addresses as “For ye are a beauty and a mystery,… that fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star”. Childe also talks to the dark “And this is the night:- most glorious night! Thou wert not made for slumber!”. “Sky, mountains, river, winds, lightnings!…. Well may be things that have made me watchful…” he laments “But as it is, I live and die unheard, with a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword”.
