Don Juan 02-205
Canto the Second

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Oh, Love! of whom great Cæsar was the suitor,
     Titus the master, Antony the slave,
Horace, Catullus, scholars, Ovid tutor,
     Sappho the sage blue-stocking, in whose grave
All those may leap who rather would be neuter
     (Leucadia's rock still overlooks the wave)-
Oh, Love! thou art the very god of evil,
For, after all, we cannot call thee devil.

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