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Title: Childe Harold's pilgrimage : a romaunt
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 Skelton, Percival
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Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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Just at this season Ramazanis fastThrough the long day its penance did maintain :But when the lingering twilight hour was past,Revel and feast assumed the rule again :Now all was bustle, and the menial trainPrepared and spread the plenteous hoard within ;The vacant gallery now seemd made in vain,But from the chambers came the mingling din,As page and slave anon were passing out and in. LXI. Here womans voice is never heard : apart,And scarce permitted, guarded, veiled, to move,She yields to one her person and her heart,lamed to her cage, nor feels a wish to rove :For, not unhappy in her masters love,And joyful in a mothers gentlest cares.Blest cares ! all other feelings far above !Herself more sweetly rears the babe she bears,Who never cpiits the breast, no meaner passion shares. LXII. In marbled-paved pavillion, where a springOf living water from the centre rose,Whose bubbling did a genial freshness fling,And soft voluptuous couches breathed repose, childe harolds pilgrimage CANTO 11
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ALI PACHA All reclined, a man of war and woes :Yet in his lineaments ye cannot trace,While gentleness her milder radiance throw sAlong that aged venerable face,The deeds that lurk beneath, and stain him with disgrace. canto ii. childe harolds pilgrimage 101 LXTII. It is not that yon hoary lengthening beard111 suits the passions which belong to youth ;Love conquers age—so Hafiz hath averrd,80 sings the Teian, and he sings in sooth—But crimes that scorn the tender voice of ruth,Beseeming all men ill, but most the manIn years, have markd him with a tigers tooth ;Blood follows blood, and, through their mortal span,In bloodier acts conclude those who with blood began. LXIV. Mid many things most new to ear and eyeThe pilgrim rested here his weary feet,And gazed around on Moslem luxury,Till quickly wearied with that spacious seat()f Wealth and Wantonness, the choice retreat()f sated Grandeur from the citys noise :And were it humbler it in sooth were sweet ;But Peace abhorreth artificial

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