I Can't Believe I've Already Outlived Byron

[snurri]

I'm reading Don Juan; I haven't decided whether I'm actually enjoying it as a whole, but the fourth canto, fourth stanza really struck home:

And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'T is that I may not weep; and if I weep,
'T is that our nature cannot always bring
Itself to apathy, for we must steep
Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring,
Ere what we least wish to behold will sleep:
Thetis baptized her mortal son in Styx;
A mortal mother would on Lethe fix.

Dayum.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

Of course you've outlived Byron. Dude died like 200 years ago!

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

When Mozart was my age... he'd been dead for a couple of decades.

[v-verticordia.livejournal.com]

I'm just impressed that someone else knows Byron! If only I'd lived in 1816, Lord B. and I would have got it ON!!