Don Juan 07-56 ~ 60
  

Don Juan 07-56
Canto the Seventh
 
     LVI

The day before the assault, while upon drill --
     For this great conqueror play'd the corporal --
Some Cossacques, hovering like hawks round a hill,
     Had met a party towards the twilight's fall,
One of whom spoke their tongue -- or well or ill,
     'T was much that he was understood at all;
But whether from his voice, or speech, or manner,
They found that he had fought beneath their banner.


Don Juan 07-57
Canto the Seventh
 
     LVII

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.


Don Juan 07-58
Canto the Seventh
 
     LVIII

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; --


Don Juan 07-59
Canto the Seventh
 
     LIX

Suwarrow, when he saw this company
     Of Cossacques and their prey, turn'd round and cast
Upon them his slow brow and piercing eye: --
     "Whence come ye?" -- "From Constantinople last,
Captives just now escaped," was the reply.
     "What are ye?" -- "What you see us." Briefly pass'd
This dialogue; for he who answer'd knew
To whom he spoke, and made his words but few.


Don Juan 07-560
Canto the Seventh
 
     LX

"Your names?" -- "Mine's Johnson, and my comrade's Juan;
     The other two are women, and the third
Is neither man nor woman." The chief threw on
     The party a slight glance, then said, "I have heard
Your name before, the second is a new one:
     To bring the other three here was absurd:
But let that pass: -- I think I have heard your name
In the Nikolaiew regiment?" -- "The same."
 
 
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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