Lord Byron – Childe Harold Canto 3 part 5
Childe Harold pays tribute to good men who fought on either side like Marceau “Brief, brave, and glorious was his young career,- … For he was freedom’s champion…”. He has to say “Adieu to thee fair Rhine! How long delighted the stranger fain would linger on his way!” as he goes forward on his pilgrimage towards the Alps “The palaces of nature, whose vast walls have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps”. Childe considers that “To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind; all are not fit with them to stir and toil,…..’Midst a contentious world, striving where none are strong”.
