Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 1.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more!

And the waves bound beneath me as a steed

That knows his rider.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 2.

I am as a weed

Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail

Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 2.

He who grown aged in this world of woe,