5689. George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. 1788-1824. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	5689
AUTHOR:	George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824)
QUOTATION:	Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime? 1
ATTRIBUTION:	The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 1.

Note 1.
Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!
Goethe: Wilhelm Meister. [back]

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