Lord Byron Quote

There were his young barbarians all at play,
There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire,
Butchered to make a Roman holiday.


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18) canto 4, st. 141


There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.

There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.

There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.

There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.