“Hark! to the hurried question of despair:
"Where is my child?"—an echo answers, "Where?"”

—  George Gordon Byron , book The Bride of Abydos

Canto II, stanza 27; this can be compared to: I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?", Anonymous Arabic manuscript
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

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