Journal in Cephalonia

THE dead have been awakened--shall I sleep?
The World's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?
The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart----

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Leading figure of the Romantic movement, celebrated for Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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