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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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Sequestered shades where Piety has given

26 lines
Lord Byron·1788–1824·Romanticism
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h, ye condemned the ills of life to bear!As with advancing age your woes increase,What bliss amidst these solitudes to shareThe happy foretaste of eternal Peace,Till Heaven in mercy bids your pain and sorrows cease. [First published in the _Life of Lord Byron_,by the Hon. Roden Noel, London, 1890, pp. 206, 207.] LINES WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE.[15] 1. Dear object of defeated care!Though now of Love and thee bereft,To reconcile me with despairThine image and my tears are left. 2. 'Tis said with Sorrow Time can cope;But this I feel can ne'er be true:For by the death-blow of my HopeMy Memory immortal grew. _Athens, January_, 1811.[First published, _Childe Harold_, 1812 (4to).] TRANSLATION OF THE FAMOUS GREEK WAR SONG,[Greek: "Deu~te pai~des to~n E(lle/non."][16] Sons of the Greeks, arise!The glorious hour's gone forth,And, worthy of such ties,Display who gave us birth.
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