Re-reading Don Juan, While pondering Ocean Treasures and Newly Discovered Shipwrecks
In 2015 22 ancient Shipwrecks were discovered off the coast of Fourni, Greece
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Athens - Benaki Museum - Portrait of Lord Byron. Engraving after the painting by R Westall 1814 (postcard)
From Don Juan: Canto the Second, by Lord Byron
"It was such a pleasure to behold him, such
Enlargement of existence to partake
Nature with him, to thrill beneath his touch,
To watch him slumbering, and to see him wake:
To live with him forever were too much;
But then the thought of parting made her quake:
He was her own, her ocean-treasure, cast
Like a rich wreck — her first love, and her last."
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Links:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151103-greek-shipwreck-find-trading-route
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/10/29/22-ancient-shipwrecks-found-in-fourni-greece-orig.cnn