Don Juan 00-03
Dedication

     III
You, Bob! are rather insolent, you know,
     At being disappointed in your wish
To supersede all warblers here below,
     And be the only Blackbird in the dish;
And then you overstrain yourself, or so,
     And tumble downward like the flying fish
Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob,
And fall, for lack of moisture, quite a-dry, Bob!

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