The Vision of Judgment 055

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When the great signal ran from heaven to hell -
About ten million times the distance reckon'd
From our sun to its earth, as we can tell
How much time it takes up, even to a second,
For every ray that travels to dispel
The fogs of London, through which, dimly beacon'd,
The weathercocks are gilt some thrice a year,
If that the summer is not too severe;

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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