A Sequel to Don Juan — page 240: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 231 LXXV. ‘* Rise, damsel, rise ! To me that you should kneel I am not worthy! Ah! let there be one Who, ’midst the wrecks around, may live to feel A single generous act by Tinville done !— Yes—for the heart, though fenced with triple steel, By woman’s tears to mercy may be won; And I, who to the grief of man allow No pity, melt before a woman now ! LXXVI. “Oh! blest, then, be those magic charms which shed Their genial influence on th’ obdurate mind, Rekindling sympathies deemed long since dead, And rousing once again emotions kind. ’Round woman there’s a glorious halo spread, By which the savage nature is refined :— And I this day have known, ’mid years of strife, The sweetest moment of my stormy life !’’ LXX VII. He ceased, and raised the lady from the floor On which she knelt ;—and on her hand he prest His lips but for a moment—’twas no more Than the regard which might have been exprest By brother unto sister. Then before Honour had time to ooze out from his breast— A trick which that same honour ’s wont to play— He led the lady from the house away. COMmMiclboOoks. conn