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Post by :directoris
Category :Poems
Author :Lord Byron
Date :August 2011
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Journal In Cephalonia
THE dead have been awakened--shall I sleep?The World's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?
The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart----
June 19, 1823.
(The end)
Lord Byron's poem: Journal In Cephalonia
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