Don Juan 04-109
Canto the Fourth
 
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What! can I prove "a lion" then no more?
 A ball-room bard, a foolscap, hot-press darling?
To bear the compliments of many a bore,
 And sigh, "I can't get out," like Yorick's starling;
Why then I'll swear, as poet Wordy swore
 (Because the world won't read him, always snarling),
That taste is gone, that fame is but a lottery,
Drawn by the blue-coat misses of a coterie.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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