Don Juan 02-093
Canto the Second

XCIII

Our shipwreck'd seamen thought it a good omen-
     It is as well to think so, now and then;
'T was an old custom of the Greek and Roman,
     And may become of great advantage when
Folks are discouraged; and most surely no men
     Had greater need to nerve themselves again
Than these, and so this rainbow look'd like hope-
Quite a celestial kaleidoscope.

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