| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5611 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (17881824) |
| QUOTATION: | There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgiums capital had gatherd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone oer fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes lookd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 21. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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