Don Juan 02-192
Canto the Second

CXCII

Alas! they were so young, so beautiful,
     So lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour
Was that in which the heart is always full,
     And, having o'er itself no further power,
Prompts deeds eternity can not annul,
     But pays off moments in an endless shower
Of hell-fire-all prepared for people giving
Pleasure or pain to one another living.

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