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By thy cold breast and serpent smile,
By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile,
By that most seeming virtuous eye,
By thy shut soul's hypocrisy;
By the perfection of thine art
Which pass'd for human thine own heart;
By thy delight in others' pain,
And by thy brotherhood of Cain,
I call upon thee! and compel
Thyself to be thy proper Hell!

— Lord Byron Manfred (1817)

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How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.

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For freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.

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She was his life,
The ocean to the river of his thoughts,
Which terminated all.

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