A Sequel to Don Juan — page 58: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. AQ CXX VIII. Yes—nature’s true unto herself. The mind, By Fashion warped, by pleasure led astray, To uncouth thoughts and doctrines is inclined, And with all baseless sophisms loves to play ;— But Nature gives back sight unto the blind, Guides the lost footsteps to her own right way, And teaches men to recognise the truth So oft perverted or denied in youth. CXXIX. O Man ! how fallible art thou! Thy boasts Are physical resemblance to thy God, Anda superiority o’er hosts Of living things which crouch beneath thy rod ; Thy vessels bear thy rule to distant coasts, The earth gives up her treasure at thy nod,— Thy wisdom makes e’en savage nature kind— And yet thou canst not rule thy wayward mind! CXXX, Man is a mighty being when his pride, By fortune favoured and supremely blest, In all its boundless wants is gratified, And when his deadliest passions are at rest; But mark him when his cravings are denied, When blighted Love or Sorrow is his guest, And Ruin o’er him waves its sable wing— Then where on earth exists a meaner thing 4 D COmiclbookxs.conn