Don Juan 06-091 ~ 095
  
 
Don Juan 06-091
Canto the Sixth
 
     XCI
 
He did not think much on the matter, nor
     Indeed on any other: as a man
He liked to have a handsome paramour
     At hand, as one may like to have a fan,
And therefore of Circassians had good store,
     As an amusement after the Divan;
Though an unusual fit of love, or duty,
Had made him lately bask in his bride's beauty.
  
 
Don Juan 06-092
Canto the Sixth
 
     XCII
 
And now he rose; and after due ablutions
     Exacted by the customs of the East,
And prayers and other pious evolutions,
     He drank six cups of coffee at the least,
And then withdrew to hear about the Russians,
     Whose victories had recently increased
In Catherine's reign, whom glory still adores,
As greatest of all sovereigns and w--s.
  
 
Don Juan 06-093
Canto the Sixth
 
     XCIII
 
But oh, thou grand legitimate Alexander!
     Her son's son, let not this last phrase offend
Thine ear, if it should reach -- and now rhymes wander
     Almost as far as Petersburgh and lend
A dreadful impulse to each loud meander
     Of murmuring Liberty's wide waves, which blend
Their roar even with the Baltic's -- so you be
Your father's son, 't is quite enough for me.
  
 
Don Juan 06-094
Canto the Sixth
 
     XCIV
 
To call men love-begotten or proclaim
     Their mothers as the antipodes of Timon,
That hater of mankind, would be a shame,
     A libel, or whate'er you please to rhyme on:
But people's ancestors are history's game;
     And if one lady's slip could leave a crime on
All generations, I should like to know
What pedigree the best would have to show?
  
 
Don Juan 06-095
Canto the Sixth
 
     XCV
 
Had Catherine and the sultan understood
     Their own true interests, which kings rarely know
Until 't is taught by lessons rather rude,
     There was a way to end their strife, although
Perhaps precarious, had they but thought good,
     Without the aid of prince or plenipo:
She to dismiss her guards and he his haram,
And for their other matters, meet and share 'em.
         
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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