Don Juan 02-019
Canto the Second

XIX

"And, oh! if e'er I should forget, I swear-
     But that's impossible, and cannot be-
Sooner shall this blue ocean melt to air,
     Sooner shall earth resolve itself to sea,
Than I resign thine image, oh, my fair!
     Or think of any thing excepting thee;
A mind diseased no remedy can physic
(Here the ship gave a lurch, and he grew sea-sick).

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