Date: 1820
"Thou think'st we will live through thee, one by one, / Like animal life, and though we can obscure not / The soul which burns within, that we will dwell / Beside it, like a vain loud multitude / Vexing the self-content of wisest men."
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Date: 1823
"'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, / Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)