Don Juan 00-06
Dedication

     VI
I would not imitate the petty thought,
     Nor coin my self-love to so base a vice,
For all the glory your conversion brought,
     Since gold alone should not have been its price.
You have your salary; was 't for that you wrought?
     And Wordsworth has his place in the Excise.
You're shabby fellows - true - but poets still,
And duly seated on the immortal hill.

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