Don Juan 02-173
Canto the Second

CLXXIII

It was such pleasure to behold him, such
     Enlargement of existence to partake
Nature with him, to thrill beneath his touch,
     To watch him slumbering, and to see him wake:
To live with him forever were too much;
     But then the thought of parting made her quake;
He was her own, her ocean-treasure, cast
Like a rich wreck-her first love, and her last.

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