THE GHOST OF LORD BYRON BADE ME REMEMBER THIS DAY

 

 Lord Byron's letter of February 28,1817 from Venice to his friend Thomas Moore included one of his most popularlyrics, 

"So we'll go no more a-roving

So late into the night,

Though the heart be still asloving,

And the moon be still as bright.

 

For the sword outwears itssheath,

And the soul wears out thebreast,

And the heart must pause tobreathe,

And love itself have rest.

 

Though the night was made forloving,

And the day returns too soon,

Yet we'll go no more a-roving

By the light of the moon."

To carry on with the moonlighttheme: 

Ernest Thompson’s OnGolden Pond opened on Broadway on this day in 1979 for a ten-and-a-half monthrun, followed by the hit movie: 

 "Our minds are clear and ourhearts are strong.

We are dancing here, but we won’tbe long.

There will soon be deer wherethere now are fawns. But we’ll remember our years on Golden Pond,

On Golden Pond…."