Don Juan 02-151
Canto the Second

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Now Juan could not understand a word,
     Being no Grecian; but he had an ear,
And her voice was the warble of a bird,
     So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear,
That finer, simpler music ne'er was heard;
     The sort of sound we echo with a tear,
Without knowing why-an overpowering tone,
Whence Melody descends as from a throne.

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