Читать книгу Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (With Byron's Biography) - Lord Byron - Страница 97

The lists are oped, the spacious area cleared,90 Thousands on thousands piled are seated round; Long ere the first loud trumpet's note is heard, Ne vacant space for lated wight is found: Here Dons, Grandees, but chiefly Dames abound, Skilled in the ogle of a roguish eye, Yet ever well inclined to heal the wound; None through their cold disdain are doomed to die, As moon-struck bards complain, by Love's sad archery.