You have already worn the martyr’s crown.

If there be in me just one spark of envy,

It is that I was not like you in gaol.

I envied you that most supreme distinction

Of living in the shadow of the cross

With all the sacred shades of martyred rebels,

A fellow worker of departed Christs.

NIGHTMARE

I had a dream, I had a horrid dream.

I dreamt that Byron travels for a house