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Dedication

     XVII
Meantime, Sir Laureate, I proceed to dedicate,
     In honest simple verse, this song to you.
And, if in flattering strains I do not predicate,
     'T is that I still retain my "buff and blue;"
My politics as yet are all to educate:
     Apostasy 's so fashionable, too,
To keep one creed's a task grown quite Herculean;
Is it not so, my Tory, ultra-Julian?

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