Don Juan 00-04
Dedication

     IV
And Wordsworth, in a rather long Excursion
     (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages),
Has given a sample from the vasty version
     Of his new system to perplex the sages;
'T is poetry - at least by his assertion,
     And may appear so when the dog-star rages -
And he who understands it would be able
To add a story to the Tower of Babel.

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