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This article examines how Byron's Newstead Abbey poems embody his diverse perceptions of the decay of his ancestors' historic residence from the reign of Henry II through to the time of the English Reformation and Civil War. His two poems, anthologized in his earliest publication of 1804 (Hours of Idleness) and entitled "On Leaving Newstead Abbey" and "Elegy on Newstead Abbey," clearly recount the ruination of the abbey by his awareness of the historical accounts of the monastery. Byron's recognition of the history of the site involves the dynamic functions of the building utilized as a spiritual shelter for his antecedents and their political battlefield to save the nation. The demolishment of the dwelling associates with his memoirs of the various deeds of his forefathers during the period of stability, and also turbulent and mutable occasions. Byron's acknowledgment of the downfall of the abbey, however, vigorously pursues the spirit of resilience beyond the outside wreckage by resisting the descendants' oblivion of the religious or valorous activities of his forefathers.