A Sequel to Don Juan — page 27: what you’re looking at

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18 A SEQUEL TO XXXVIT. Alas! that love should make us blind; and drive All prudent thoughts from the imagination. Don Juan was the wildest youth alive, Despising everything like calculation ;— ’ He never thought of closing up the hive Where so much honey was in expectation : Thus when the! noblemen went to explore, They found that he’d forgot to lock the door. XXX VIII. As if Galvani’s battery had been planted Close by, they started with electric shock : And then, as if by evil powers enchanted, They seemed transformed each to a marble block. Was that the moral youth his lordship vaunted ? Or had he really only meant to mock The poor Duke’s feelings? Really ’twas unpleasant, And might not end just where it was at present. XX XIX. Sleep had stol’n o’er the eyes of those who lay So lovingly locked in each other’s arms : The lamp was flickering—but the light of day Beamed through the curtain on those naked charms :— Smiles were on both their lips—thus infants play Above th’ abyss, unconscious of alarms :— The Duke has since declared he then saw more Of his own wife than he’d e’er done before. COPMIGELOOK<S.COM