<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116806" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, in the month of dark December,<br>Leander, who was nightly wont<br>(What maid will not the tale remember?)<br>To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, when the wintry tempest roar'd,<br>He sped to Hero, nothing loth,<br>And thus of old thy current pour'd,<br>Fair Venus! how I pity both!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For me, degenerate modern wretch,<br>Though in the genial month of May,<br>My dripping limbs I faintly stretch,<br>And think I've done a feat today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But since he cross'd the rapid tide,<br>According to the doubtful story,<br>To woo, -- and -- Lord knows what beside,<br>And swam for Love, as I for Glory;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twere hard to say who fared the best:<br>Sad mortals! thus the gods still plague you!<br>He lost his labour, I my jest;<br>For he was drown'd, and I've the ague.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116806" data-title="Written After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos de Byron" data-description="If, in the month of dark December,/Leander, who was nightly wont/(What maid will not the tale remember?)/To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!/If, when the wintry tempest roar'd,/He sped to Hero, nothing loth,/And thus of old thy current pour'd,/..."></div> </div> </div>

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