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" The spell is broke; the charm is flown!
Thus is it with life’s fitful fever:
We madly smile when we should groan:
Delirium is our best deceiver.

Each lucid interval of thought
Recalls the woes of Nature’s charter;
And he that acts as wise men ought,
But lives, as saints have died, a martyr. "

Lord Byron


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Lord Byron quote : The spell is broke; the charm is flown!<br />Thus is it with life’s fitful fever:<br />We madly smile when we should groan:<br />Delirium is our best deceiver.<br /> <br />Each lucid interval of thought<br />Recalls the woes of Nature’s charter;<br />And he that acts as wise men ought,<br />But lives, as saints have died, a martyr.