Don Juan 01-217
Canto the First

CCXVII

Ambition was my idol, which was broken
     Before the shrines of Sorrow, and of Pleasure;
And the two last have left me many a token
     O'er which reflection may be made at leisure:
Now, like Friar Bacon's brazen head, I've spoken,
     "Time is, Time was, Time's past:"-a chymic treasure
Is glittering youth, which I have spent betimes-
My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

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