Don Juan 03-055
Canto the Third

     LV
But something of the spirit of old Greece
     Flash'd o'er his soul a few heroic rays,
Such as lit onward to the Golden Fleece
     His predecessors in the Colchian days;
Tis true he had no ardent love for peace-
     Alas! his country show'd no path to praise:
Hate to the world and war with every nation
He waged, in vengeance of her degradation.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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