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Dedication

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If, fallen in evil days on evil tongues,
     Milton appeal'd to the Avenger, Time,
If Time, the Avenger, execrates his wrongs,
     And makes the word 'Miltonic' mean 'sublime,'
He deign'd not to belie his soul in songs
     Nor turn his very talent to a crime;
He did not loathe the Sire to laud the Son,
But closed the tyrant-hater he begun.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong