The Bride of Abydos 2-10
  
CANTO THE SECOND.

X.

"I said I was not what I seem'd;
And now thou see'st my words were true:
I have a tale thou hast not dream'd,
If sooth - its truth must others rue.
My story now 'twere vain to hide,
I must not see thee Osman's bride:
But had not thine own lips declared
How much of that young heart I shared,
I could not, must not, yet have shown
The darker secret of my own.
In this I speak not now of love;
That, let time, truth, and peril prove:
But first - oh! never wed another -
Zuleika! I am not thy brother!"

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong