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Dedication

     II
"Which pye being open'd they began to sing"
     (This old song and new simile holds good),
"A dainty dish to set before the King,"
     Or Regent, who admires such kind of food; -
And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
     But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood, -
Explaining metaphysics to the nation -
I wish he would explain his Explanation.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong