Perfect Vignette

On a personal level I am an admirer of works of the English poet Lord Byron.

Some of his select poetry like ‘By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept’, ‘Darkness’ is really enchanting. Though I do not have the stature to comment or review his works, but I believe what matters is whether we enjoy the reading or not. And truly he is one of the great romantic poets.

It is the news item titled ‘Byron Manuscript Found’ on the online edition of New York Times that made me to remember him now. The only known manuscript of a 12-line poem by Lord Byron, dated April 12, 1812, speaking of friendship and memory and beginning, "Absent or present still to thee." It was found during a routine cataloguing at University College, London. This was found inside an 1810 edition of "The Pleasures of Memory" by Samuel Rogers, a patron of the arts and minor poet who entertained writers, artists, actors and politicians in his salon.

Is it not a perfect Vignette?