And when the gorgeous coffin was laid low,
It seemed the mockery of hell to fold
The rottenness of eighty years in gold.

On the burial of george iii

The Vision of Judgement (1822) st. 10

Lord Byron Quotes

And when the gorgeous coffin was laid low, It seemed the mockery of hell to fold The rottenness of eighty years in gold.

And when the gorgeous coffin was laid low, It seemed the mockery of hell to fold The rottenness of eighty years in gold.

And when the gorgeous coffin was laid low, It seemed the mockery of hell to fold The rottenness of eighty years in gold.

And when the gorgeous coffin was laid low, It seemed the mockery of hell to fold The rottenness of eighty years in gold.