A Sequel to Don Juan — page 189: what you’re looking at

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180 A SEQUEL TO LX XI. Thou hast within thy depths, O mighty sea! To deck the brow of monarchs the bright gem ; And groves of rich red coral that should be The poet’s theme, for him to sing of them ;— The treasures too of many an argosy, | And pearls to place in Beauty’s diadem. What countless lives and riches in thy womb, Destructive element, have found a tomb ! LX XII. Juan stood on the ocean’s verge—his eyes Towards the cloudless queen of night up-bent : He watched her passage in those star-lit skies, Until it seemed that on the firmament He read the course of his own destinies ; And then a pang unto his heart’s core went :— Ah! might he not one single day have given To have espoused his Rose in sight of heaven ? LX XIII. Then thus he spoke aloud :—“ By you I swear, Sweet planet of the night—and every star— That seem the eyes of heaven gazing there On him who now adjures ye from afar,— By ye, attesting thus, I vow that ere My falsehood or inconstancy should mar The happiness of Rose, I’d rather meet Death in the waters rippling at my feet !”’ COPMICLIOO KS. CONN)