“But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,
Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.”

—  George Gordon Byron, book Manfred

Act II, scene i.
Manfred (1817)
Context: Think'st thou existence doth depend on time?
It doth; but actions are our epochs: mine
Have made my days and nights imperishable
Endless, and all alike, as sands on the shore
Innumerable atoms; and one desert
Barren and cold, on which the wild waves break,
But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,
Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.

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

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