Monday, August 05, 2024
The Inevitable Sequence
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, IV.cviii.1-4:
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There is the moral of all human tales;
'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory—when that fails,
Wealth—Vice—Corruption,—Barbarism at last.
