Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-09-18
Byron and May Chaworth.

Byron ana MARY Cna"Orth
GRACE GREENWOOD, in her late visit to Eng
lind paid "a visit to Newsstand Abbey, the well
known residence of LORD BYgoS. In speaking
of the event she touchingiy and beautifully al
ludes to the love Of the poet for MARY CHA
WORTH, thus
strangely sorrowfnI. almost agonizingly re
gretful. were the thoughts which swept over my
mind, wave after wave, and shook my heart like
tempest rs | stood in the place whore the
young poet missed many hours of silent thoughts
ii may br.of lonely Indebtedness. | never be-
fore 30 deeply felt how passing mournfnl was the
Story OF Byron's first and only love. That Mary
Chaworth returned the passion OF her young po-
ct lover have not doubt; but like the Monta-
CUES and Capulets. the houses of Chaworth and
Byron were at feud. Mary had not the strength
and truth of Juliet, and 50 they were parted-a
sensation by far more piteons IDr her, aud more
fatal to him, than death amid the full summer
brightness of happy love. This. not Shak
speare's, was the rne-soul OF tragedy. Night
she not have redeemed even his hayward and
erring nature, by the divinity Of pure love and
steadfast faith But it was 10 be. Mary be
slowed her hand upon n man of whom little bet
ter can be SAID than he ranked. among the most
eminent sporismcn of the day''-liyed, it = said
to weep wild tears over the words which have
linked her mime in souowiul Immortality with
hrr lovers, and died in broken hcnrtcdnrs at
last, while he, grown reckless, restless, and de-
fiant, the very core of hi, heart turned to bitter
ashes, forgetting his God. and distrusting and
despising his brother, swept ON his glorious,
shameful, sorrowful and stormy career, ill the
shadows decpenedand the long night closed in
The painful romance here alluded to. Is well
remembered by all who are familiar with Byrons
life. That ii preyed upon mind by nature
sensitive and morbid, driving him to fits of rN
cess, Of gloom aud bitterness, IN which tender
ness i mixed with disappointment, and every
worthy ambition chst down by agouizing recoi-
leelions-that indeed it was the undYing source
to hn of sorrow none can doubt who have pom
dercd hi- Writings. Who has forgotten his own
description OF hi: love for MARY CnAwoETH, his
/ marriage and his consequences, in that poem
which MOORE charaCteriZrs us the most mourn
tal, a. well rs picturesque story OF Il wandering
lfr, that ever cume from the pen and heart Of
+ man.
~ change came DER the spirit Of my drcanl''-
f The #wandercr was retnned-l saw him stand
Before an altar with gentle bride.
ller zee was fair, but was not that which made
The starlight OF his hoyhood-as he stood
Etcn Al the altar, DER hi, brow there came
The sell saIue aspect and the quiyering shock,
ihat in the antique oratory shook
His bosom in it, solitude, and then
y in that hour, moment Ger his face
] The tablet If uuutteruble thoughts
/ Wac tracrd-und then II faded rs it came,
+ And he stood calm aud quiet, and he spoke
The fitting vows, bat heard not lis own words,
And all things reced around him--hc could sec
Notthat which was, nor that which should have
been
Bat the - mansion and The accustomed hail
And the Remembered chanhcr~, and the place.
The day, the hour, I'll. sunshine and the shade,
All things pertaining to that place and hour,
+ And her who was his destiny. came bach,
i And Ihru-I fltpl..llrs ttt, linn fl
light
This touching picture" say Moore, agrees
f clo~ely,nmtny ot lis circumstances, Nith Lord
! ByTou'o own prose account of the wedding, in hi,
/ memoranda: IA which hc describe, himself IL Va
7 king on thu mornings lis marriage wiih1he most
i melancholy reflections, un seeing ul> wedding suit
spread before him. In the SAM nood he wan
dercd about the grat nds alone, til ne Was sum
maued for the ceremony, aud .a'n.l. Tor the first
time, GA that day, hi, bridr aud her family. He
knrlt down he repeated the words after tIie ccl-
gynran, but Il mist wa before his eycs-hiS
thoughts were clscwhcro;and he was bat awaken
cd by the congratulations of the bys'anders t.
lind hat he was married.
SHIPMENTS OF BREApsrtFrs.- According 10
! the \. \. journal of Commerce theI lie have hcrn
shipped Ireu that port to foreign port, for
the year ending the Beth OF Iunr, l,sI3,93i bbl-.
of wheat flour, against l,.tuG,}l7 bbI-. last year.
and 3,u19ll 1t bushels Of corn this Ncnr, against
Gl1,19l huahel, last yrar. 'lh shipments, of
corn meal were : ,-l6 barrels Thu, aud - I:El
last year; and OF rye flour 1901 bbls. this. and
-,oJo last year. The journal adds that common
State -four was sold on saturday To be delivered,
ut tn option of the seller any time in October, al
= 5o,or about two dollars below the earrentrlt,
More, it says, would now he sold ON the same
terms.
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