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Old Robert
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Fictional harp-playing bard from the poem "On Leaving Newstead Abbey" by poet Lord Byron (1788–1824). It first appeared in his 1806 collection Fugitive Pieces, which he recalled and burned. It was included in his second collection, Hours of Idleness, 1807.
Newstead Abbey was Byron's actual ancestral home.
No more doth old Robert, with harp-stringing numbers,
Raise a flame in the breast for the war-laurelled wreath;
Near Askalon’s Towers John of Horistan slumbers,
Unnerved is the hand of his minstrel by death.
