"Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo, The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!"

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Stanza 12. Compare: "Oh for a single hour of that Dundee / Who on that day the word of onset gave!", William Wordsworth, Sonnet, In the Pass of Killicranky.