These wars have been so great, they are forgotten Like the Egyptian dynasts. My confrere In whose thick boots I stood, were you amazed To wander through my brain four decades later As I have wandered in a dream through yours? The violence of waking life disrupts The order of our death. Strange dreams occur, For dreams are licensed as they never were. Louis Simpson
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In a poem written in 1810, Lord Byron said, “These wars have been so great, they are forgotten Like the Egyptian dynasts. My confrere In whose thick boots I stood, were you amazed To wander through my brain four decades later As I have wandered in a dream through yours?The violence of waking life disruptsThe order of our death. Strange dreams occur, For dreams are licensed as they never were.” In the poem Byron is referring to the wars that have been fought throughout history and how they have been forgotten like the pharaohs who ruled Egypt before them. He also compares the wars to dreams and how they are not regulated like normal dreams.

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