Don Juan 02-143
Canto the Second

CXLIII

And when into the cavern Haidee stepp'd
     All timidly, yet rapidly, she saw
That like an infant Juan sweetly slept;
     And then she stopp'd, and stood as if in awe
(For sleep is awful), and on tiptoe crept
     And wrapt him closer, lest the air, too raw,
Should reach his blood, then o'er him still as death
Bent with hush'd lips, that drank his scarce-drawn breath.

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