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Happy Birthday, Lord Byron! You are 220 years old today.



A Spirit Passed Before Me
by Lord George Gordon Byron

A spirit passed before me: I beheld
The face of immortality unveiled -
Deep sleep came down on every eye save mine -
And there it stood, -all formless -but divine:
Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake;
And as my damp hair stiffened, thus it spake:

"Is man more just than God? Is man more pure
Than He who deems even Seraphs insecure?
Creatures of clay -vain dwellers in the dust!
The moth survives you, and are ye more just?
Things of a day! you wither ere the night,
Heedless and blind to Wisdom's wasted light!"

on 2008-01-22 04:52 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sublimevisions.livejournal.com
have you ever read: Sebastian's Tangibles by Inghram?

on 2008-01-22 09:10 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
No I haven't. I just did a search on Google but didn't find a copy. Is it good? Is it bad?

on 2008-01-23 07:29 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rag-and-bone.livejournal.com
this is why i heart you, ollie. because you remember lord byron's birthday when the rest of us have completely let it slip our minds.

on 2008-01-23 10:09 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
How could I forget when I saw so many candles lit up, ready for him to blow out?

on 2008-01-23 10:19 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] msanthropist.livejournal.com
My husband and oldest son are named after Lord Byron (their middle names, that is...)

on 2008-01-23 10:42 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
On purpose or accidentally?

Isn't that how legacies work?

on 2008-01-24 10:04 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] msanthropist.livejournal.com
Well...Kia is named after his dad who is named after his uncle who was named after his uncle who was named after Lord Byron. Does that still count?

Re: Isn't that how legacies work?

on 2008-01-24 10:09 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
I guess it does. :-)

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