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And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!" - Meaning and context.">
Canto II, stanza 20.

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

— Lord Byron

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!" in the context of "Canto II, stanza 20." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Lord Byron

About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.