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NUMBER:9921
QUOTATION:Sad mortals! thus the gods still plague you!
He lost his labor, I my jest;
For he was drowned, and I’ve the ague.
ATTRIBUTION:George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos (l. 18–20). . .

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