English poem
From the Portuguese. "Tu MI Chamas"
by Lord Byron
In moments to delight devoted, "My Life!" with tenderest tone, you cry; Dear words! on which my heart had doted, If Youth could neither fade nor die.
To Death even hours like these must roll, Ah! then repeat those accents never; Or change "my Life!" into "my Soul!" Which, like my Love, exists for ever.