Don Juan 04-061
Canto the Fourth

 LXI

The ruling passion, such as marble shows
 When exquisitely chisell'd, still lay there,
But fix'd as marble's unchanged aspect throws
 O'er the fair Venus, but for ever fair;
O'er the Laocoon's all eternal throes,
 And ever-dying Gladiator's air,
Their energy like life forms all their fame,
Yet looks not life, for they are still the same.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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