Yet Truth Will Sometimes Lend Her Noblest Fires, And Decorate The Verse Herself Inspire

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,
And decorate the verse herself inspires:
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,--
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Line 839

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