A Sequel to Don Juan — page 91: what you’re looking at

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82 A SEQUEL TO X XI. ‘< With what idea of justice can I blame The conduct that bestows a heart to which I dare assert, and ought to have, no claim ¢?— Although to him my inmost soul be rich In love, yet his is poor to me :—the same Feeling that placed his image in the niche Of my heart’s fane, and taught me how to kneel In worship to it, he can never feel ! XXII. ‘‘ Ah! love begets not love! Yet once I thought That his eyes beamed benignantly on mine : O fatal hope—by present suffering bought ;— The stars which light us do not only shine On those who most admire them! I have sought For bliss beneath their influence divine ; And now, unseen by me, they shine more clear And bright upon another hemisphere. X XITLL. ‘¢ But I will see him once again. ’Tis all I ask—I wish for ;—then I shall grow calm ; Surely the favour I implore is small, And one in which he cannot fancy harm ! Although the meeting to my mind may call So many pleasing dreams, *twill prove a baim To soothe my soul when on the past I dweii— For in his ears I shall have said ‘ Farewell !’”’ COPMIELOO KS. CON