Don Juan 03-047
Canto the Third

     XLVII
Now in a person used to much command-
     To bid men come, and go, and come again-
To see his orders done, too, out of hand-
     Whether the word was death, or but the chain-
It may seem strange to find his manners bland;
     Yet such things are, which I can not explain,
Though doubtless he who can command himself
Is good to govern-almost as a Guelf.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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