Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend
Language: English 
When, from the heart where Sorrow sits,
  ⁠Her dusky shadow mounts too high,
And o'er the changing aspect flits,
⁠  And clouds the brow, or fills the eye;
Heed not that gloom, which soon shall sink:
⁠  My Thoughts their dungeon know too well;
Back to my breast the Wanderers shrink,
⁠  And droop within their silent cell.

Note: first published in Childe Harold, 1814 (Seventh Edition).


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