A Sequel to Don Juan — page 245: what you’re looking at

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256 A SEQUEL TO XC, But to conclude this episode.—Not long Lingers the lady in the garden there : Anxious to quit that gay and busy throng, ~ Her lover’s liberty is now her care ; | And as she hastes the crowded streets among, By many a‘dwelling vast and palace fair, Unto the prison gate, her eyes see only Him whom she pictures cheerless, sad, and lonely. CXI. How busy is imagination when We’re doomed to fancy that which others feel : Shadows become realities, and then ° What horrors on the mental vision steal! We look upon a palace as a den, When from our longing eyes-its walls conceal Those whom we love and whom its galling chain =.» And shackle in base servitude retain. HOW: XCIY, The lady pictured Juan with his glance Cast downward, and his arms crossed o’er his breast, While on his pale and haggard countenance Despair—dark, cold, and cheerless— was exprest. Then as her footsteps towards the gaol'advance, Anxiety becomes her bosom’s guest :— Is she deceived ? and could th’ Accuser dare | To take the life he promises to spare ? COPMICLOOKS. eOnn