A Sequel to Don Juan — page 93: what you’re looking at

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84 A SEQUEL TO XX VII, Oh! as the tender and refreshing vine Faithful unto the dying oak will cling ; So round the neck of him thou lov’st, ’tis thine, Dear woman, by his fevered couch, to fling Thy snowy arms! Offspring of grace divine, When Death draws near with huge and bat-like wing, Thou canst enable man to meet his doom Resignedly, and smile above the tomb ! XXVIII. As soon as Lady Adeline confest Her secret wish unto herself, upon A sheet of gilt edged paper ’twas exprest ;— And after much reflection pro and con, Which phraseology appeared the best, Or which words she should lay the most stress'on ; And having some ten times, moreover, mended ' Her pen, the disagreeable task was ended. X XIX. I should observe here, with Sir Walter Scott, (See ‘‘ Old Mortality”) that woman ever In her epistles seems to have forgot Her object, or at least records it never Until she comes unto the postscript ;—not That I the chord of such finesse would sever, For the important motive ’s cherished better When forming the last sentence in the letter. comichbooksr;com