A Sequel to Don Juan — page 106: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. Q7 LX VI. To Lady Pinchbeck’s house our hero went, When he received this letter, to declare How bitterly he did the past repent, And how a change of life should be his care: But—as a sorrowful presentiment Had whispered him—Rose was no longer there ; And Lady Pinchbeck would not satisfy In that respect his curiosity. LX VII. To London he returned, disconsolate, Knowing not how to offer the resistance Of moral courage to his luckless fate. It seemed as if the charm of his existence Were now dissolved away—that charm which late Had been his mental solace and subsistence :— The pleasures which with Adeline he tasted No portion of his love for Rose had wasted. LX VILL. The sanguine disposition, which is never Afraid to follow hope’s alluring beck, Although through fire and flood it lead, is ever The first to faulter at the slightest check. Thus when our hero marked the bright chain sever Which held the dearest of his aims from wreck. He deemed the ill to be beyond repair, And dissipation sought to soothe his care. G CoOmiclhooks. con