The Vision of Judgment 083

LXXXIII 

'My charges upon record will outlast 
The brass of both his epitaph and tomb.' 
'Repent'st thou not,' said Michael, 'of some past 
Exaggeration? something which may doom 
Thyself if false, as him if true? Thou wast 
Too bitter - is it not so? - in thy gloom 
Of passion?' - 'Passion!' cried the phantom dim, 
'I loved my country, and I hated him. 

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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