“Away with your fictions of flimsy romance,

Those tissues of falsehood which folly has wove!

Give me the mild beam of the soul-breathing glance,

Or the rapture which dwells on the first kiss of love.”

(From The First Kiss of Love by Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824)

John Lentell

19th July, 1969

“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but

The truth in masquerade.”

(Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824)

John Lentell

14th May, 1969