Sir Noel

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    We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
    Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

    —The man who has stood on the Acropolis,
    And looked down over Attica; or he
    Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is,
    Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea
    In small-eyed China’s crockery-ware metropolis,
    Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh,
    May not think much of London’s first appearance—
    But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)