Byron Gordon

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    Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
    Our virgins dance beneath the shade—
    I see their glorious black eyes shine;
    But gazing on each glowing maid,
    My own the burning tear-drop laves,
    To think such breasts must suckle slaves.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    And had it been the dove from Noah’s ark,
    Returning there from her successful search,
    Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
    They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)