Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decora… - Lord Byron

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,
And decorate the verse herself inspires:
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,—
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron

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George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.

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Birth Name: George Gordon Byron

Alternative Names: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron • Noel Byron • George Gordon Byron Lord • George Gordon Byron, 6th Lord Byron

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Happiness was born a twin.

To strive too with our fate were such a strife
As if the corn-sheaf should oppose the sickle:
Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.

Yet I did love thee to the last,
As ferverently as thou,
Who didst not change through all the past,
And canst not alter now.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,— Though Nat… - Lord Byron

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