“Such is the aspect of this shore;
'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,
We start, for soul is wanting there.”

— George Gordon Byron , The Giaour

Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 90.

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

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