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I want a hero an uncommon want	B
When every year and month sends forth a new one	C
Till after cloying the gazettes with cant	D
The age discovers he is not the true one	C
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt	D
I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan	E
We all have seen him in the pantomime	F
Sent to the Devil somewhat ere his time II	A
Vernon the butcher Cumberland Wolfe Hawke	G
Prince Ferdinand Granby Burgoyne Keppel Howe	H
Evil and good have had their tithe of talk	G
And filled their sign posts then like Wellesley now	H
Each in their turn like Banquo's monarchs stalk	G
Followers of fame nine farrow of that sow	H
France too had Buonapart and Dumourier	I
Recorded in the Moniteur and Courier III	A
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Barnave Brissot Condorcet Mirabeau	J
P tion Clootz Danton Marat La Fayette	D
Were French and famous people as we know	K
And there were others scarce forgotten yet	D
Joubert Hoche Marceau Lannes Desaix Moreau	K
With many of the military set	D
Exceedingly remarkable at times	L
But not at all adapted to my rhymes IV	M
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Nelson was once Britannia's god of War	I
And still should be so but the tide is turn'd	D
There's no more to be said of Trafalgar	I
'Tis with our hero quietly inurn'd	D
Because the army's grown more popular	I
At which the naval people are concern'd	D
Besides the Prince is all for the land service	N
Forgetting Duncan Nelson Howe and Jervis V	M
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Brave men were living before Agamemnon	E
And since exceeding valorous and sage	O
A good deal like him too though quite the same none	C
But then they shone not on the poet's page	O
And so have been forgotten I condemn none	C
But can't find any in the present age	O
Fit for my poem that is for my new one	C
So as I said I'll take my friend Don Juan VI	M
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Most epic poets plunge in medias res	P
Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road	D
And then your hero tells whene'er you please	Q
What went before by way of episode	D
While seated after dinner at his ease	Q
Beside his mistress in some soft abode	D
Palace or garden paradise or cavern	R
Which serves the happy couple for a tavern VII	M
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That is the usual method but not mine	S
My way is to begin with the beginning	T
The regularity of my design	S
Forbids all wandering as the worst of sinning	T
And therefore I shall open with a line	S
Although it cost me half an hour in spinning	T
Narrating somewhat of Don Juan's father	I
And also of his mother if you'd rather CC	M
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My poem's epic and is meant to be	M
Divided in twelve books each book containing	T
With love and war a heavy gale at sea	M
A list of ships and captains and kings reigning	T
New characters the episodes are three	M
A panoramic view of Hell's in training	T
After the style of Virgil and of Homer	I
So that my name of Epic's no misnomer CCI	M
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All these things will be specified in time	F
With strict regard to Aristotle's rules	M
The Vade Mecum of the true sublime	F
Which makes so many poets and some fools	M
Prose poets like blank verse I'm fond of rhyme	F
Good workmen never quarrel with their tools	M
I've got new mythological machinery	M
And very handsome supernatural scenery CCII	M
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There's only one slight difference between	U
Me and my epic brethren gone before	I
And here the advantage is my own I ween	U
Not that I have not several merits more	I
But this will more peculiarly be seen	U
They so embellish that 'tis quite a bore	I
Their labyrinth of fables to thread through	I
Whereas this story's actually true CCIII	M
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If any person doubt it I appeal	V
To history tradition and to facts	M
To newspapers whose truth all know and feel	V
To plays in five and operas in three acts	M
All these confirm my statement a good deal	V
But that which more completely faith exacts	M
Is that myself and several now in Seville	W
Saw Juan's last elopement with the Devil CCIV	M
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If ever I should condescend to prose	M
I'll write poetical commandments which	X
Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those	M
That went before in these I shall enrich	X
My text with many things that no one knows	M
And carry precept to the highest pitch	X
I'll call the work Longinus o'er a Bottle	Y
Or Every Poet his own Aristotle CCV	M
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Thou shalt believe in Milton Dryden Pope	Z
Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth Coleridge Southey	A2
Because the first is craz'd beyond all hope	Z
The second drunk the third so quaint and mouthy	A2
With Crabbe it may be difficult to cope	Z
And Campbell's Hippocrene is somewhat drouthy	A2
Thou shalt not steal from Samuel Rogers nor	I
Commit flirtation with the muse of Moore CCVI	M
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Thou shalt not covet Mr Sotheby's Muse	M
His Pegasus nor anything that's his	M
Thou shalt not bear false witness like the Blues	M
There's one at least is very fond of this	M
Thou shalt not write in short but what I choose	M
This is true criticism and you may kiss	M
Exactly as you please or not the rod	D
But if you don't I'll lay it on by G d	A2

George Gordon Byron

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