In my rowan tree not ten feet away… George Gordon had a clubbed foot at birth. In fact, he had it all his short life. It be deviled him. In a further fact, he referred to himself as 'le diable boiteux,' the Lame Devil. His father, Mad Jack, was a libertine like his heir, but without the poetry, the genius, the capacity for sustained effort required of a poet. George Gordon's grandfather was the Wicked Lord. He was morally- challenged, in the parlance of our times. Immoral in different ways than Mad Jack. In different ways than George Gordon.
Lord Byron, the seventh of that title, heretofore George Gordon, was risen to rare air with the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and François Marie Arouet…
