Don Juan 02-095
Canto the Second

XCV

But in this case I also must remark,
     'T was well this bird of promise did not perch,
Because the tackle of our shatter'd bark
     Was not so safe for roosting as a church;
And had it been the dove from Noah's ark,
     Returning there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.

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