“Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood.”

—  George Gordon Byron , The Prisoner of Chillon

The Prisoner of Chillon, st. 8.

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

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