This may be a misquotation of the first two lines in Lord Byron's "Stanzas on the Death of the Duke of Dorset".
Or not.
Anyway, Byron's work begins:
"I heard thy fate without a tear,
Thy loss with scarce a sigh;
And yet thou wert surpassing dear -
Too loved of all to die.
I know not what hath seared mine eye,
The tears refuse to start;
But every drop its lids deny
Falls dreary on my heart."
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