Don Juan 02-203
Canto the Second

CCIII

And oh! that quickening of the heart, that beat!
     How much it costs us! yet each rising throb
Is in its cause as its effect so sweet,
     That Wisdom, ever on the watch to rob
Joy of its alchymy, and to repeat
     Fine truths; even Conscience, too, has a tough job
To make us understand each good old maxim,
So good-I wonder Castlereagh don't tax 'em.

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