Don Juan 00-09
Dedication

     IX
He that reserves his laurels for posterity
     (Who does not often claim the bright reversion)
Has generally no great crop to spare it, he
     Being only injured by his own assertion;
And although here and there some glorious rarity
     Arise like Titan from the sea's immersion,
The major part of such appelants go
To - God knows where - for no one else can know.

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