Impromptu

BENEATH Blessington's eyes
The reclaimed Paradise
Should be free as the former from evil;
But if the new Eve
For an Apple should grieve,
What mortal would not play the Devil?

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Leading figure of the Romantic movement, celebrated for Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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