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Lord Byron on Birthday

1788–1824 England

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There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.

The Age of Bronze (1823)

Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.

* * * all who joy would win
Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin.

Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo,
Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flattery; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.

There comes
For ever something between us and what
We deem our happiness.

Friendship is Love without wings.

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of Love are gone;
The worm — the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!

Spared and blessed by Time,
Looking tranquility.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.

When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.

Just as old age is creeping on apace,
And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,
But in good company—the gout or stone.

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