Don Juan 02-006
Canto the Second

VI

An Arab horse, a stately stag, a barb
     New broke, a cameleopard, a gazelle,
No-none of these will do;-and then their garb!
     Their veil and petticoat-Alas! to dwell
Upon such things would very near absorb
     A canto-then their feet and ankles,-well,
Thank Heaven I've got no metaphor quite ready
(And so, my sober Muse-come, let's be steady --

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