"Hark! to the hurried question of despair: "Where is my child?"—an echo answers, "Where?""
— Lord Byron

January 1, 1970

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Canto II, stanza 27; this can be compared to: I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?", Anonymous Arabic manuscript