The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-22

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time her hsna " Lord or sf BYRON put his hand: %
ing round on the two that stood there with sar.
castle smile, said:--"When snail we three meet
againi" Lady Byron answered, I'm heaven'
trust" and these were her last words to him on
earth
SHIFTING THE BLAME.
AS tnere must be somewhere a scapeg0at 10 pear
the sins OF the affair, Lord Byron wrote poem
called "a Sketch" in which he lays the blame OF
STIRRING up strife ON friend and former g0yerness
OF Lady Byrons but In this sketch he introduces the
following Just eulogy on Lady Byron:-
T9sS wss aos BY . youthful mind hind
D Deceit Inject NOT nor oontAgon SOIL ~
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On humble talents with plying frown,
Nor Nor s s1py s as Ssss pa Isnd'' 'An
Nor ras s sSsnS is NOR passion boz"
sereneiy purest of her sex that live.
s.. shocked a iaS: lsr soul IS Know,
Foe to all vice. yet hardly virtues friend,
For virtue pardons those she would amend.
AWAY.
In leaving England Lord Byron first went to Swift
zerand. where he conceived and In part wrote out
the tragedy OF 'Manfred.n Moore speaks OF his
underwent at this time a. having an influence In
stimulating his genius, so that he was enabled to
write with n VINO Sssd n
will see that 1t Is true The hero s represented
gloomy msanthrOpe. dwelling with impentent re-
whcn has been the destruction OF his sister for ths
life and the life to come but which to the very last
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sion Of his cespairtng soul. That Byron knew his
own guilt wen and judged himself severely may be
gathered from passages in this pOem which are Is
powerful as human language can be made.
ByRoN's DAUGHrsR-HEB LIFs AND DEATH
D ill., s Bsss e. .ss %ol aS ss
storms and aststions Of the period IL whlch sas
norance Of the true history Of her mothers ME and
the consequence was that abe could not fully I'm.
derstand that mother. during ner early Gniidnooa
fort She married man OF fashion, ran brilliant
course as gay woman Of fashion, and died early Of
shaded retirement OF the SICK room the daughter
came wholly back to her mothers arms and heart,
a On INTO Ss valley that
mother VINO placed her weak and dying hand In that
OF her Almighty Saviour; r
The person whose relations with Byron had been
30 disastrous Also in the latter years OF her life felt
N Ser sst and dnS hours to her
for consolation ana help. There was an unfortunate
child Of sin. born with the curse upon her, over
whose wayward nature Lady Byron watcned VIII D
mothers tenderness
BYRON's DEATH-rHE MORTAL STRUGGLE BEFORE
During all this trial. strange to say, her beer that
the good in Lord Byron would finally conquer was
10 nd wnS ss1 70 He Sa19 aSw
DEAR there was the angel In him." 1t Is in US all.
1t was this angel that she had faith. It was for
the deliverance OF this angel from degradation and
shame and sin that she increasingly prayed. She
read every work that Byron wrote-read 1t with
deeper knowledge than any human being put her
and the insults with which he strOve to make her
ridiculous ip the world fell Of her plying feet un-
needed When he broke away from all this unworthy
life to devote himself to manly enterprise for the
redemption Of Greece she thought that she saw the
o9s q IN acts
repeat to Lady Blessngton the false accusation
which made Lady Byron the author Of all his errors
she still had hopes from the one step taken In the
right direction In the midst OF these hopes came
the news Of his sudden death. On his death bed II
servant to him and said to him, ''Go to my sister
tell her-go to Lady Byron-yOu viii see her and
Here shs twenty a. Ss
and sister frequently occurred. He then said Nov
nave f fod you rened Fletcher ~ have m, under
stood q word your lordship has been saying"
''NOr understand me p, exclaimed Lord Byron,
with LOOK Of the utmost distress g ft was pity
Moore, tried to utter few words OF which none
were intelliglble except "My sister-my child"
LADY BYRON's RELIGIOTS HOPE.
When Fletcher returned to London Lady Byron
sent TOR MIN, and walked the room in convulsivs
over and over again strove to elicit something from
him which should enlighten her upon what that last
were smut in her face and not WORD had passed to
tell her II ne had repented For all that Lady Byron
! never doubted his salvation: Ever before her.
was the image OF her husband purified and emo
bled with the shadows OF earth forever dlssipated
him. as she expressed it, 'made perfect, according
to It's Divine idealn Never has more divine strength
Of faith and love existed n 10 0as OF the
gained such views OF Divine love and mercy as made
all hopes possible. There was no soul OF whose fu-
ture Lady Byron Qespaired
HER HUSBANDS SPIRIT WORLD.
We have spoken Of that singular sense OF the
encompass Lady byron during the last part Of her
lite, and which had made her words and actions
seem more like those OF blessed being detached
modes OF looking at things all her motives Of action
ali her Involuntary exhibitions OF emotion, were 30
lated by the most unworidly causes, that 1t would
seem difficult to make the ordinary world understand
exactly how the thing seemed 70 ne before ner mind
thing else was Lady Byrons perfect conviction that
| her husband was now redeemed spirit; that he
looked back with pain and shame and regret on all
| that was unworthy In Ills past life; and that
II could speak act IN the case, he would desire
to prevent the further circulation of base alsehoods
| and OF seductive poetry which had been made the
| vehicle OF morbid and unworthy passions. Lady
Byron's experiences had led her TO apply the powers
| OF her strong philosophical mind to the study OF
the solution q The painful problem which Grst &C.
to nsr as 0ung WAS s ssr a
| those unfortunately constituted persons in whom
| the balance OF nature is 30 critically hung that
and that IN certain periods q his ife he was IS far
under the influence OF mental disorder as not
to be fully Responsible for his actions. She
went over, with q bIlef and clear analysis, the his
tory Of his Whole HE as she had Thought # out
| during the lonely musings Of her wldownood. She
| dwelt on the ancestral causes which gave him
nature OF exceptional and dangerous susceptibility
! She went through the mlsmanagemcnts OF his chld-
hood the history of his school days the influence OF
the ordinary school course Of classical reading on
| such mind as his She skelched boldly and clearly
the internal life of the young men OF the time as she
| with her purer eyes had looked through IT, and
showed how habits which with less susceptible fibre
and strength OF nature toleraple for his
| companions, were deadly to him. unhinging his ner-
vous system and intenslfytng the dangers OF ances
trial proctyities Lady Byron expressed the feeling.
too, that the Caynistic theology as heard In Scot
land had proved in this case Us 1t often does in
| tain minds, subtle poison. lie never could either
disbelieve become reconciled to II, and the
problems 1t proposes emblttered his spirit against
Christianity 'The worst OF 1t is, do believe" he
| would often say with violence, when he had been
employing all his powers OF reason wit and ridicue
upon these subjects. Through all this sorrowful hs
tory was to be seen, not the care OF q slandered
| woman to make her story good, but the pathetic
anxiety Of mother who treasures every particle OF