Don Juan 03-051
Canto the Third

     LI
He enter'd in the house no more his home,
     A thing to human feelings the most trying,
And harder for the heart to overcome,
     Perhaps, than even the mental pangs of dying;
To find our hearthstone turn'd into a tomb,
     And round its once warm precincts palely lying
The ashes of our hopes, is a deep grief,
Beyond a single gentleman's belief.

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