Don Juan 03-053
Canto the Third

     LIII
He was a man of a strange temperament,
     Of mild demeanour though of savage mood,
Moderate in all his habits, and content
     With temperance in pleasure, as in food,
Quick to perceive, and strong to bear, and meant
     For something better, if not wholly good;
His country's wrongs and his despair to save her
Had stung him from a slave to an enslaver.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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