The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes |
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SPENSERIAN.
[O'er Byron's dust our sorrows should be steel'd]
O'er Byron's dust our sorrows should be steel'd,Or sternly burn, as, burning slow, he died—
Till one long groan from shuddering Greece reveal'd
That fate had done her worst; and o'er the tide
Loud yell'd the Turk his triumph-howl of pride.
Yet will they flow, these woman's drops; for thou
Didst die for woman, though her hand applied
No gentle pressure to thy fever'd brow:
O Byron, “thou, within, hadst that which passeth show!”
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