Don Juan 02-008
Canto the Second

VIII

But to our tale: the Donna Inez sent
     Her son to Cadiz only to embark;
To stay there had not answer'd her intent,
     But why--we leave the reader in the dark --
'T was for a voyage that the young man was meant,
     As if a Spanish ship were Noah's ark,
To wean him from the wickedness of earth,
And send him like a dove of promise forth.

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