The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Impromptu

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IMPROMPTU.^[1]

⁠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?

April, 1823.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 635.]

↑ [With the view of inducing these friends [Lord and Lady Blessington] to prolong their stay at Genoa, he suggested their taking a pretty villa, called "Il Paradiso," in the neighbourhood of his own, and accompanied them to look at it. Upon that occasion it was that, on the lady expressing some intention of residing there, he produced the following impromptu.—Life, 577.]

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[1] [With the view of inducing these friends [Lord and Lady Blessington] to prolong their stay at Genoa, he suggested their taking a pretty villa, called "Il Paradiso," in the neighbourhood of his own, and accompanied them to look at it. Upon that occasion it was that, on the lady expressing some intention of residing there, he produced the following impromptu.—Life, 577.]

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