The lapse of ages changes all things—time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing “about, around, and underneath” man, except man himself.
ATTRIBUTION:
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 8, journal entry, Jan. 9, 1821, ed. Leslie A Marchand (1973-1981).
