“Remember me – Oh! pass not thou my grave
Without one thought whose relics there recline;
The only pang my bosom dare not brave
Must be to find forgetfulness in thine.
“My fondest, faintest, latest accents hear –
Grief for the dead not virtue can reprove;
Then give me all I ever ask’d – a tear,
The first – last – sole reward of so much love!”
The Corsair Canto I Verse XIII (1814)
