The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6

by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

[702] {515}B. Fy. 19^th 1823.—[MS.]

CANTO THE FOURTEENTH.

I.

If from great Nature's or our own abyss[703]

Of Thought we could but snatch a certainty,

Perhaps Mankind might find the path they miss—

But then 't would spoil much good philosophy.

One system eats another up, and this[704]