“Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?”

—  George Gordon Byron, book The Bride of Abydos

Canto I, stanza 1.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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