A Sequel to Don Juan — page 47: what you’re looking at

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38 A SEQUEL TO XCV. At all events, I hope the pill, prepared For those whom I have noticed, will produce A sweetness in the mouth of them that shared Its bitterness ere they perceived its use. {f from all persecution 1 am spared, For having let my tongue a moment loose, I’11 open business as a moral censor, And of a social purgative dispenser. XCVI, But to resume. Arrived in town once more, Juan’s first thought was of the orphan child, Leila, whom he from Ismael’s pillage bore, And who on her young guardian sweetly, smiled When thus they met again. Her features wore A shade of melancholy—but so mild And so resigned th’ expression of her eyes, it kindled all his tenderest sympathies. XCVII. The Lady Pinchbeck, with whom Leila dweit, Was most indulgent to her charge, and kind ;— But there were times when the young orphan felt A weight of sorrow pressing on her mind ; For there were visions of the past to melt Her bosom, when the memory cast behind A glance at country—friends—and ruined home, And parents sleeping in an early tomb ! Gomichooksscom