HIS BONDAGE TO MANON IS BROKEN <br />From this day forth I lead another life, <br />Another life! A life without a tear! <br />To--day has ended the unequal strife; <br />My service and my sorrow finish here. <br />See, my soul cuts her cable of belief <br />And sails towards the ocean. She shall steer <br />Sublime henceforth o'er accidents of grief. <br />Her storm has rolled to a new Hemisphere. <br />I have loved too much, too loyally, too long. <br />To--day I am a pirate of the sea. <br />Let others suffer. I have suffered wrong. <br />Let others love, and love as tenderly. <br />Oh, Manon, there are women yet unborn <br />Shall rue thy frailty, else am I forsworn.<br /><br />Wilfrid Scawen Blunt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-love-sonnets-of-proteus-part-i-to-manon-xxi/
