Beauty

There's a lot of beautiful things in this world. Of course beauty is subjective, but when it comes right down to it, the most basic form of beauty is universal. Confidence is beautiful, music is beautiful, art is beautiful. Everything you can think of on this earth has some amount of beauty in it. That fact is irrefutable. It is the level of beauty that people find subjective. I was looking up a particular poem by Lord Byron and I stumbled across this one. It in no way reflects anything going on in my life but I love it anyway. It speaks to me in some way. And I find it incredibly beautiful but I can't for the life of me pinpoint why.

I Watched Thee - Lord Byron

I watched thee when the foe was at our side
Ready to strike at him, or thee and me
Were safety hopeless rather than divide
Aught with one loved, save love and liberty.

I watched thee in the breakers when the rock
Received our prow and all was storm and fear
And bade thee cling to me through every shock
This arm would be thy bark or breast thy bier.

I watched thee when the fever glazed thine eyes
Yielding my couch, and stretched me on the ground
When overworn with watching, ne'er to rise
From thence, if thou an early grave hadst found.

The Earthquake came and rocked the quivering wall
And men and Nature reeled as if with wine
Whom did I seek around the tottering Hall
For thee, whose safety first provide for thine.

And when convulsive throes denied my breath
The faintest utterance to my fading thought
To thee, to thee, even in the grasp of death
My spirit turned. Ah! oftener than it ought.

Thus much and more, and yet thou lov'st me not,
And never wilt, Love dwells not in our will
Nor can I blame thee, though it be my lot
To strongly, wrongly, vainly, love thee still.