Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?
Lord Byron
Hope
A quote by Lord Byron
From the source
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 168.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.