WHEN HISTORY DOES THEE WRONG.
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, one of England's famous poets. Born in London, January 22, 1788; died at Missolonghi, Greece, April 19, 1824.
Teems not each ditty with the glorious tale?
Ah! such, alas, the hero's amplest fate.
When granite molders and when records fail,
Pride! bend thine eye from heaven to thine estate,
See how the mighty shrink into a song.
Can volume, pillar, pile, preserve thee great?
Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue,
When Flattery sleeps with thee, and History does thee wrong.