Too high for common selfishness , he couldAt times resign his own for others' good,But not in pity - not because he ought,But in some strange perversity of thought,That swayed him onward with a secred prideTo do what few or none could do beside;And this same impulse would, in tempting time,Mislead his spirit equally to crime;So much he soared beyond, or sank beneath,The men with whom he felt condemned to breathe And longed by good or ill to seperateHimself from all who shared his mortal fate.
-Lord Byron
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