Don Juan 01-132
Canto the First

CXXXII

This is the patent-age of new inventions
     For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions;
     Sir Humphry Davy's lantern, by which coals
Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions,
     Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles,
Are ways to benefit mankind, as true,
Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

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