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George Gordon Lord Byron

Oh! little lock of golden hue
  In gently waving ringlet curl’d,
By the dear head on which you grew,
  I would not lose you for a world.

Not though a thousand more adorn
  The polished brow where once you shone,
Like rays which guild a cloudless sky
  Beneath Columbia’s fervid zone.

Online text © 1998-2008 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 | William Clowes and Sons, Ltd., 1898

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