Page:The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero) - Volume 2.djvu/173

CANTO II.] LXIII.

It is not that yon hoary lengthening beard

Ill suits the passions which belong to Youth;

Love conquers Age—so Hafiz hath averr'd,

So sings the Teian, and he sings in sooth —

But crimes that scorn the tender voice of ruth,"

Beseeming all men ill, but most the man