A Sequel to Don Juan — page 64: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. DO CXLVI. ** Young men are wild and loose in their amours, Which merit not affection’s sacred name :— Scandal has published some details of your’s, And shown that they had little of the flame Which, even with possession, still endures, Knows not satiety, but gleams the same To-day as yesterday ;—this is love’s light, Not evanescent, but for ever bright ! CXULVIL. ‘‘ Were you caught by some superficial charm, A charm as fleeting as the sunny hour— i’d say, with fortitude your soul to arm, That beauty is a perishable flower ;— And I should even feel much less alarm, Were you enamoured of a costly dower. Still, loveliness and wealth may pass away,— What quality shall then check love’s decay ? CXLVITII. ‘‘ Mere beauty, as mere wealth, must be withstood !-- But there is one whom I could paint to you— Perfection’s self—as fair as she is good — Full young in years, younger in feelings true !— A taste that can embellish solitude, And furnish out its own enjoyments too ; A self-poised mind that ne’er is fain to court The countenance of others for support ; COMmiclooOoks. conn