Manuscript poem - "In the dome of my sires"
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RB E3
Written by Byron at Newstead Abbey soon after he returned from his Grand Tour of the Near East. Byron intended these lines to be a personal expression of the sadness he felt after his mother died. They remained unpublished for more than 50 years after his own death in 1824.
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