Don Juan 00-11
Dedication

     XI
Think'st thou, could he - the blind Old Man - arise
     Like Samuel from the grave, to freeze once more
The blood of monarchs with his prophecies,
     Or be alive again - again all hoar
With time and trials, and those helpless eyes,
     And heartless daughters - worn - and pale?and poor;
Would he adore a sultan? he obey
The intellectual eunuch Castlereagh?

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