“And thou wert lovely to the last,Extinguish'd, not decay'd;As stars that shoot along the skyShine brightest as they fall from high.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Lord Byron
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812).
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Byron, Lord. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Lord Byron. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
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