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Journal in Cephalonia

Lord Byron·1788–1824
Lines:6Movement:Romanticism
THE dead have been awakened--shall I sleep? The World's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, Its echo in my heart----