A Sequel to Don Juan — page 55: what you’re looking at

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A6 A SEQUEL TO CXIX. Nor suits that grandeur our new heroine :— She was so far removed from vain parade, That her most strenous efforts would have been To keep her fascinations in the shade, Had she known she possessed them. But her mien Repelled that adulation which is paid By vain frivolity as offering meet To lay at hollow-minded beauty’s feet. CXX. There is a beauty on the senses breaking, Like the soft lustre of the early dawn, To which the eye-sight, gradually awaking, Is turned to catch each new gleam of the morn ; And by degrees, the clouds of night forsaking The face of heaven, a bright day newly-born Steals on the sight, to ravish and to bless The senses with its tranquil loveliness. CX XI. Such was Rose Delacour. Her charms, concealed Beneath the veil of her own modesty, By gradual glimpses only were revealed, With all their magic softness, to the eye. Don Juan’s heart, by dissipation steeled Against mere beauty, felt the witchery Of that supernal loveliness which stole By gradient gleams upon his ravished soul. cComichbooksnjcom