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First Line: What are to me those honors or renown
Last Line: So strong thy magic or so weak am I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Greece


WHAT are to me those honours or renown
Past or to come, a new-born people's cry?
Albeit for such I could despise a crown
Of aught save laurel, or for such could die,
I am a fool of passion, and a frown
Of thine to me is as an adder's eye.
To the poor bird whose pinion fluttering down
Wafts unto death the breast it bore so high;
Such is this maddening fascination grown,
So strong thy magic or so weak am I.





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