Byron by Lord G. Gordon Byron

Author:Lord G. Gordon Byron [Byron, Lord George Gordon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-71254-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

XLV

For there we have them all ‘at one fell swoop,’

Instead of being scatter’d through the pages;

They stand forth marshall’d in a handsome troop,

To meet the ingenuous youth of future ages,

Till some less rigid editor shall stoop

To call them back into their separate cages,

Instead of standing staring all together,

Like garden gods – and not so decent either.

XLVI

The Missal too (it was the family Missal)

Was ornamented in a sort of way

Which ancient mass-books often are, and this all

Kinds of grotesques illumined; and how they,

Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all,

Could turn their optics to the text and pray,

Is more than I know – But Don Juan’s mother

Kept this herself, and gave her son another.

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