Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I

The darkness of her Oriental eye   Accorded with her Moorish origin (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by;   In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin); When proud Granada fell, and, forced to fly,   Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin Some went to Africa, some stay’d in Spain, Her great-great-grandmamma chose to remain.

— Lord Byron on Moors

What It Means

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Lord Byron

About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.