Don Juan 07-11 ~ 15
 
 
Don Juan 07-11
Canto the Seventh
 
     XI

This circumstance may serve to give a notion
     Of the high talents of this new Vauban:
But the town ditch below was deep as ocean,
     The rampart higher than you'd wish to hang:
But then there was a great want of precaution
     (Prithee, excuse this engineering slang),
Nor work advanced, nor cover'd way was there,
To hint at least "Here is no thoroughfare."
 
 
Don Juan 07-12
Canto the Seventh
 
     XII

But a stone bastion, with a narrow gorge,
     And walls as thick as most skulls born as yet;
Two batteries, cap-a-pie, as our St. George,
     Case-mated one, and t' other "a barbette,"
Of Danube's bank took formidable charge;
     While two and twenty cannon duly set
Rose over the town's right side, in bristling tier,
Forty feet high, upon a cavalier.


Don Juan 07-13
Canto the Seventh
 
     XIII

But from the river the town's open quite,
     Because the Turks could never be persuaded
A Russian vessel e'er would heave in sight;
     And such their creed was, till they were invaded,
When it grew rather late to set things right.
     But as the Danube could not well be waded,
They look'd upon the Muscovite flotilla,
And only shouted, "Allah!" and "Bis Millah!"


Don Juan 07-14
Canto the Seventh
 
     XIV

The Russians now were ready to attack:
     But oh, ye goddesses of war and glory!
How shall I spell the name of each Cossacque
     Who were immortal, could one tell their story?
Alas! what to their memory can lack?
     Achilles' self was not more grim and gory
Than thousands of this new and polish'd nation,
Whose names want nothing but -- pronunciation.


Don Juan 07-15
Canto the Seventh
 
     XV

Still I'll record a few, if but to increase
     Our euphony: there was Strongenoff, and Strokonoff,
Meknop, Serge Lwow, Arseniew of modern Greece,
     And Tschitsshakoff, and Roguenoff, and Chokenoff,
And others of twelve consonants apiece;
     And more might be found out, if I could poke enough
Into gazettes; but Fame (capricious strumpet),
It seems, has got an ear as well as trumpet,
 
 
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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