poetry month - just a snippet
25 Apr 2013 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This one's from Byron's The Corsair just because I've always loved the first line.
There was a laughing Devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear ;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled — and Mercy sighed farewell !
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There was a laughing Devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear ;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled — and Mercy sighed farewell !
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