Don Juan 02-163
Canto the Second

CLXIII

And now, by dint of fingers and of eyes,
     And words repeated after her, he took
A lesson in her tongue; but by surmise,
     No doubt, less of her language than her look:
As he who studies fervently the skies
     Turns oftener to the stars than to his book,
Thus Juan learn'd his alpha beta better
From Haidee's glance than any graven letter.

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