The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-15
are direct contradiction to the letter ne wrote
to Leigh Hunt, May 3, 1916:

Methought ioy and health alone could be
Where was not--and pain and sorrow here!
And is it thus?-it is as foretold,
And shall be more so; for the mind recoils
Upon itself, and the wrecked heart lies cold,
While heaviDess collects the shattered spOils.
1t is not in the storm nor IN the strife
We feel benumb'd and met to be no more,
But in the after silence on the shore,
When all is lost, except little life.
am too well avenged!-but twas my right
Whate'er my sins might be, thou vert not sent
To be the Nemesis who should require
Nor did Heaven choose so new an instrument.
Mercy is for the merciful If thou
Hadst been of such, twill he accorded now.
Thy nights are banished from the realms Of
sleep!
Yes! they may fatter thee, but thou must feel
A hollow agony which will not heal,
For thou art pillOwed on curse too deep;
Thou hast sown in my sorrow, and must reap
The bitter harvest in a woe as real!
l have had many foes, but none like thee;
For 'gainst the rest myself | could defend,
And be avenged, or turn them into friend;
But thou in safe applicability shielded,
Hadst sought to dread--in thine own weakness
And in my love, which hath but too much
yielded,
And spared for thy sake some should not spare.
And thus upon the world trust in thy truth
And the wild fume of my ungOverned youth
On things that were not, and on things that
are
Even upon such basis hast thou built
A monument whose cement hath been guilt!
The moral Clytemnestra of thy lord,
And hewed down with an unsupported sword,
Fame, peace and hOpe-and all the better life
Which but for this cold treason of thy heart,
Might still have risen from out the grave of
strife,
And found nobler duty than to part.
But if thy virtues thou didst make vice,
Traficing with them in purpose cold,
For present anger, and for future gold
And buying others grief at any price,
And thus once entered into crooked ways,
The early truth which was thy proper praise,
Did not still walk beside thee--but on times,
And with breast unknOwing its own crimes,
Deceit, averments incompatible,
Equivocations, and the thoughts which dwell
In Janus spirits-the significant eye
Which learns to lie with silence-the pretext
Of prudence, with advantages annexed
The acquiescence in all things which tend.
No matter how, to the desired end
All found place in thy philosophy.
The means were worthy. and the end is now,
would not do by thee as thou hast done.
1t should be remembered that Byron
treated his wife in manner calculated to
ALLEVIATE the affections of any woman +; and
upon their separation, little over one year
year after the nuptials, the current of public
opinion set in fearfully against him. He
was Immediately Stunned, if not still more
harshly treated, which induced him to leave
England and live in Italy.
Byron said 10 substance, in mitigation of
his conduct, that his mind was depressed
and disordered, which disqualified him for
domestic comfort
Hon. Augusta Ada, only child of Lord
and Lady Byron-"Ada, sole daughter of
nay house and heart was born December
10, 1915.
In an epistle to Mr.. Moore, under date of
June 5, 1916, Byron wrote:
The little girl was born on the 10th of Decem-
Der last. Her name is Augusta Ada, the Sec
ond very antique family name-I believe not
used since the reign of King John. 1
have now been married year on the I'd of this
month. Heigh no!
In letter to Lady Blessington, dated
-, May 3. 1928, he wrote as follows in
reference to Lady Byron and his child:
My request would be for copy Of the min
iatare of Lady B., which | have seen in pos
session of the late Lady Noel, as have no pic
ture or indeed memorial of any kind of Lady
B., as all her letters were in her own posses
sion before lett England, AMI We have had no
correspondence since-at least on her part.
My message wi, regard to the infant is sim.
ply to this etfect-that in the event of any &C
cident occurring to the mother, and my re-
naming the survivor, it would be my wish to
have her plans carried into effect, both in re.
gard to the education of the child and the per-
son or persons under whose care Lady B. might
H.. Al.-A H. Il - Il :
not my intention to interfere with her in any
way on the subject during her life: and pre-
sumo it would be some consolation to her to
know (f she is in i'll health, as ! am given to
understand) that in no case would anything be
done, as far as l am concerned, put in strict
conformity with Lady BIS own wishes and in
tentions-left in what manner she thought pro-
per.
Byron's daughter was married July s,
1885, to William King, Earl of Lovelance.
She died November 7, 1852. Ada inher-
tied the restless disposition of her father
and, alt ough of good natural abilities, oil
a mathematical turn of mind, she delighted
in speculation in railway shares and on the
turf.
10 1880 Lady. Byron wrote letter, and
caused it to be published, generating her
father and mother from charges connected
with her separation from her husband-oi
which they had been accused-but throwing
no further light upon the subject.
Lady Byron succeeded, November IL,
1856, to the barony of Wentworth. She
was noted for her mental attachments and
for her liberal disposition. 10 1856 she
sent the sum of $3.50 to the New Eng land
Kansas Emigration Society, and she figured
frequently as contributor to philanthropi-
cal enterprises.
Her immediate fortune at the time of her
marriage was about ten thousand pounds
sterling, but on the death of her father and
mother she became possessed of estates to a
very large amount.
The New York Times says: In Lady
Byron shining light of decorous English
evangelism has now been extinguished. The
Countess Guiccioli, now Madame la Mar
quise de Boissy, still reigns an undisputed
queen of high-bred grace and unaffected
fashion, in the salons OF Paris. So singu~
lar an exemption as both these ladies enjoyed
from the usual decline which old age brings
upon the vivacity and intensity Of the quail
tiles which make and preserve wide socia
influence, would almost seem to prove that
the Poets gift of inexha ustible youth is
communicable grace"