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NUMBER:9920
QUOTATION:Leander, who was nightly wont
(What maid will not the tale remember?)
To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!
ATTRIBUTION:George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos (l. 2–4). . .

The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Byron Collection.
 
 
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