A Sequel to Don Juan — page 54: what you’re looking at

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“4 DON JUAN. AS CX VI. _ There is a beauty gorgeous, grand, and splendid, Bursting upon you like the noon-day sun, © In which the awe of majesty is blended With light too dazzling to be gazed upon,— A beauty that should ne’er walk unattended By crowds of sycophants, and must be won _ By courtly mien, by wealth, by pomp, and power— The heart not forming portion of the dower. CXVII. With the grand beauty now delineated, Well suited for an empress or a queen, The eyes and heart alike full soon are sated, Kiven if more than dazzled they have been. Luckless the man who happens to be mated With such an one—luckless his fate, | ween ;— Ne’er can he hope to find her fond and tender, Because she cannot put aside her splendour. CX VIII. The love that such a haughty beauty knows As much deserves the name as the display Of sacerdotal pride and pomp, which glows In grand Cathedrals on the Sabbath-day, Merits the title of religion. Those Who really love, resemble those who pray In secret, far from splendour and from show— © Love and True Piety no grandeur know ! ~ COMmiclbookxs.conn