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The works of Lord Byron

A new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and R. E. Prothero

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MY EPITAPH.

Youth, Nature, and relenting Jove,
To keep my lamp in strongly strove;

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But Romanelli was so stout,
He beat all three—and blew it out.
October, 1810.