Don Juan 02-149
Canto the Second

CXLIX

He woke and gazed, and would have slept again,
     But the fair face which met his eyes forbade
Those eyes to close, though weariness and pain
     Had further sleep a further pleasure made;
For woman's face was never form'd in vain
     For Juan, so that even when he pray'd
He turn'd from grisly saints, and martyrs hairy,
To the sweet portraits of the Virgin Mary.

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