Don Juan 03-026
Canto the Third

XXVI
Lambro, our sea-solicitor, who had
     Much less experience of dry land than ocean,
On seeing his own chimney-smoke, felt glad;
     But not knowing metaphysics, had no notion
Of the true reason of his not being sad,
     Or that of any other strong emotion;
He loved his child, and would have wept the loss of her,
But knew the cause no more than a philosopher.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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