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The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save:— :A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they—now furious as the sweeping wave, :Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage mind.
The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save:— :A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they—now furious as the sweeping wave, :Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage mind.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 82 · quotation 7 · Byron · Don Juan. Canto VIII. St. 106.
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