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Byron, Lord - from Don Juan
Identifier
003718
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
All about forgetting as an aide to experience - suppressing memory
A description of the experience
Don Juan
And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'T is that I may not weep; and if I weep,
'T is that our nature cannot always bring
Itself to apathy, for we must steep
Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring,
Ere what we least wish to behold will sleep:
Thetis baptized her mortal son in Styx;
A mortal mother would on Lethe fix."