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Better To Sink Beneath The Shock Than Moulder Piecemeal On The Rock.
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Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- The Giaour, Line 969
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Shrine of the mighty! can it be That this is all remains of thee?
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The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name.
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For freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.
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I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd.
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The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
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And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame....
Such is the aspect of this shore; 'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there....
He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled
The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers....
She was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory!
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Alla given, To lift from earth our low desire....