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Edward Bulwer-Lytton on Alone

1803–1873 England

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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

Alone!—that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
Of hope laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

The New Timon (1846)

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