On My Wedding-Day

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Title:     On My Wedding-Day
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

HERE'S a happy New Year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say--
Wish me many returns of the Season,
But as few as you please of the Day.[1]

January 2, 1820.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 294.]

FOOTNOTE:

[1] [Medwin (Conversations, 1824, p. 156) prints an alternative--

"You may wish me returns of the season,
Let us, prithee, have none of the day!"]

[The end]
Lord Byron's poem: On My Wedding-Day

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