The prisoner of Chillon : a poem / by Lord Byron.

  • Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Date:
1818
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Credit: The prisoner of Chillon : a poem / by Lord Byron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABLE. I. Mr hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, ^ As men’s have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bowed, though not with toil. But rusted with a vile repose. For they have been a dungeon’s spoil. And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann’d, and barr’d—forbidden fare; 10 But this w'as for my father’s faith I suffered chains and courted death ;