Famous Quotes | All earth was but one...

All earth was but one thought—and that was death,
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails—men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devour’d, - George Gordon Noel Byron
Attribution: George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Darkness (l. 42–46). . . The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.

Categories: Death, Famine

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