Don Juan by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Author:Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Don Juan (Legendary character) -- Poetry
Published: 2007-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Whereon immediately at his request

They brought him and his comrades to head-quarters;

Their dress was Moslem, but you might have guess'd

That these were merely masquerading Tartars,

And that beneath each Turkish-fashion'd vest

Lurk'd Christianity; which sometimes barters

Her inward grace for outward show, and makes

It difficult to shun some strange mistakes.

Suwarrow, who was standing in his shirt

Before a company of Calmucks, drilling,

Exclaiming, fooling, swearing at the inert,

And lecturing on the noble art of killing,—

For deeming human clay but common dirt,

This great philosopher was thus instilling

His maxims, which to martial comprehension

Proved death in battle equal to a pension;—

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