Don Juan 02-150
Canto the Second

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And thus upon his elbow he arose,
     And look'd upon the lady, in whose cheek
The pale contended with the purple rose,
     As with an effort she began to speak;
Her eyes were eloquent, her words would pose,
     Although she told him, in good modern Greek,
With an Ionian accent, low and sweet,
That he was faint, and must not talk, but eat.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong