Don Juan 02-040
Canto the Second

XL

There winds and waves had hurl'd them, and from thence,
     Without their will, they carried them away;
For they were forced with steering to dispense,
     And never had as yet a quiet day
On which they might repose, or even commence
     A jurymast or rudder, or could say
The ship would swim an hour, which, by good luck,
Still swam-though not exactly like a duck.

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