Don Juan 01-119
Canto the First

CXIX

Oh Pleasure! you are indeed a pleasant thing,
     Although one must be damn'd for you, no doubt:
I make a resolution every spring
     Of reformation, ere the year run out,
But somehow, this my vestal vow takes wing,
     Yet still, I trust it may be kept throughout:
I'm very sorry, very much ashamed,
And mean, next winter, to be quite reclaim'd.

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