| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5679 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (17881824) |
| QUOTATION: | He who hath bent him oer the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decays effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Giaour. Line 68. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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