Author: W. Harness
Cited by
- Eliot Warburton (1)
- IN: The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volume I. (1846) Non-Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: What! thou, man! love!
It never touched thee-love! why it exists
In self-devotion: sacrifice and toil
Are the pure air it breathes in.
* * For shame! presume not
To call thy selfish, woe-creating lust
By the proud title of that godlike virtue.
FROM: Welcome and Farewell, (1837), Poem, UK