THE

BRIDE OF ABYDOS.

A TURKISH TAL E.

BY LORD BYRON.

Had we never loved so kindly,

Had we never loved so blindly,

Never met or never parted,

We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

BURNS.

LONDON:

Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars,

FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1813.

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD HOLLAND,

THIS TALE

IS INSCRIBED, WITH

EVERY SENTIMENT OF REGARD

AND RESPECT,

BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGED

AND SINCERE FRIEND,

BYRON.

THE

BRIDE OF ABYDOS.

Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie,

And the purple of Ocean is deepest in die ;

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,

And all, save the spirit of man, is divine

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