Don Juan 02-016
Canto the Second

XVI

So Juan wept, as wept the captive Jews
     By Babel's waters, still remembering Sion:
I'd weep,-but mine is not a weeping Muse,
     And such light griefs are not a thing to die on;
Young men should travel, if but to amuse
     Themselves; and the next time their servants tie on
Behind their carriages their new portmanteau,
Perhaps it may be lined with this my canto.

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