The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Journal in Cephalonia
JOURNAL IN CEPHALONIA.
The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
The World's at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
The harvest's ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart——
June 19, 1823.
[First published, Letters, 1901, vi. 238.]
[First published, Letters, 1901, vi. 238.]