George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
To Thomas Moore, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn,
Where the mammoth came to drink;
Through brawn and bone I drave the stone
And slew him upon the brink.”
Evolution (1895; 1909)
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