The Love Sonnets of Proteus, To Manon, XXI: His Bondage to Manon is broken

From this day forth I lead another life,
Another life ! A life without a tear !
To-day has ended the unequal strife ;
My service and nay sorrow finish here.
See, my soul cuts her cable of belief
And sails towards the ocean. She shall steer
Sublime henceforth o'er accidents of gri«if.
Her storm has rolled to a new Hemisphere.
I have loved too much, too loyally, too long.
To-day I am a pirate of the sea.
Let others suffer. I have suffered wrong.
Let others love, and love as tenderly.
Oh, Manon, there are women yet unborn
Shall rue thy frailty, else am I forsworn.