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 popular lyrics, 

"So we'll go no more a-roving

So late into the night,

Though the heart be still as loving,

And the moon be still as bright.

 

For the sword outwears its sheath,

And the soul wears out the breast,

And the heart must pause to breathe,

And love itself have rest.

 

Though the night was made for loving,

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 moonlight theme: 

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

 "Our minds are clear and our hearts are strong.

We are dancing here, but we won’t be long.

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

On Golden Pond…."