{"id":692,"date":"2003-07-24T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2003-07-24T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2003-07-24T13:50:47","slug":"lord-byrons-epitaph-on-the-presidents-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Lord Byron’s epitaph on the Presidents Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is the moral of all human tales;
\nTis but the same rehearsal of the past,
\nFirst Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails,
\nWealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.<\/a> And here he is on modern Britain:<\/p>\n\n

Kingdoms are shrunk to provinces, and chains
\nClank over sceptred cities, nations melt
\nFrom power’s high pinnacle, when they have felt
\nThe sunshine for a while, and downward go
\nLike lauwine loosen’d from the mountain’s belt:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

“lauwine” is nice. “Lavin” in Swedish is an avalanche. I wonder if this is a Scots\/Norse word.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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