Читать книгу Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (With Byron's Biography) - Lord Byron - Страница 50

Convention is the dwarfish demon styled51 That foiled the knights in Marialva's dome: Of brains (if brains they had) he them beguiled, And turned a nation's shallow joy to gloom. Here Folly dashed to earth the victor's plume, And Policy regained what arms had lost: For chiefs like ours in vain may laurels bloom! Woe to the conquering, not the conquered host, Since baffled Triumph droops on Lusitania's coast.