History & Politics
Journal in Cephalonia
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
History & Politics
The dead have been awakened--shall I sleep?
The World's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?
The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart----
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Codex Note
June 19, 1823. First published, Letters, 1901, vi. 238.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “Journal in Cephalonia.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/263/.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “Journal in Cephalonia.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/263/.
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