“My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night,
As men's have grown from sudden fears.”

The Prisoner of Chillon http://readytogoebooks.com/PC31.htm, st. 1 (1816).

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

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