Lord Byron, Lara, A Tale (1814), Canto I, Stanza 3.

"Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear.

— Lord Byron on Expectations

What It Means

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About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.