“He who hath bent him o'er the dead
Ere the first day of death is fled,—
The first dark day of nothingness,
The last of danger and distress,
Before decay's effacing fingers
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.”

—  George Gordon Byron , The Giaour

Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 68.

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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