Читать книгу Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (With Byron's Biography) - Lord Byron - Страница 158

Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!118 "All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why should we shrink from what we cannot shun? Each hath its pang, but feeble sufferers groan With brain-born dreams of Evil all their own. Pursue what Chance or Fate proclaimeth best; Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron: There no forced banquet claims the sated guest, But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome Rest.