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Quotation from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron

“Man marks the earth with ruin--his control Stops with the shore;”

Lord Byron (spoken by The narrator)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, stanza 179 (Gutenberg #5131: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)

The sea lies beyond human power.

Citation: "Man marks the earth with ruin--his control Stops with the shore;" — Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, stanza 179 (Gutenberg #5131: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage). (id childe-harolds-pilgrimage-q4)

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