"It is a hard although a common case……" — Lord Byron
"It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive- they In whom our brightest days we would retrace, Our little selves reform'd in finer clay, Just as old age is creeping on apace, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, Th."
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382 Quotes by Lord Byron
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