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dark⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "’Twas for a voyage the young man was meant,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if a Spanish ship were Noah’s ark,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wean him from the wickedness of earth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And send him like a Dove of Promise forth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Don Juan bade his valet pack his things", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "According to direction, then received", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A lecture and some money: for four springs", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He was to travel; and though Inez grieved", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(As every kind of parting has its stings),", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She hoped he would improve⁠—perhaps believed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A letter, too, she gave (he never read it)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of good advice⁠—and two or three of credit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In the mean time, to pass her hours away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Brave Inez now set up a Sunday school", 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Spain.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "I can’t but say it is an awkward sight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To see one’s native land receding through", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The growing waters; it unmans one quite,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Especially when life is rather new:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I recollect Great Britain’s coast looks white,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But almost every other country’s blue,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When gazing on them, mystified by distance,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "We enter on our nautical existence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the ship creaked, the town became a speck,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From which away so fair and fast they bore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The best of remedies is a beef-steak", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against sea-sickness: try it, Sir, before", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "You sneer, and I assure you this is true,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For I have found it answer⁠—so may you.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Don Juan stood, and, gazing from the stern,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beheld his native Spain receding far:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First partings form a lesson hard to learn,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Even nations feel this when they go to war;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There is a sort of unexpressed concern,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A kind of shock that sets one’s heart ajar,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At leaving even the most unpleasant people", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And places⁠—one keeps looking at the steeple.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Juan had got many things to leave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His mother, and a mistress, and no wife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that he had much better cause to grieve", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Than many persons more advanced in life:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if we now and then a sigh must heave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At quitting even those we quit in strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No doubt we weep for those the heart endears⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That is, till deeper griefs congeal our tears.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So Juan wept, as wept the captive Jews", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By Babel’s waters, still remembering Zion:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I’d weep⁠—but mine is not a weeping Muse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And such light griefs are not a thing to die on;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Young men should travel, if but to amuse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Themselves; and the next time their servants tie on", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Behind their carriages their new portmanteau,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Perhaps it may be lined with this my canto.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And Juan wept, and much he sighed and thought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While his salt tears dropped into the salt sea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Sweets to the sweet;” (I like so much to quote;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "You must excuse this extract⁠—’tis where she,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Queen of Denmark, for Ophelia brought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flowers to the grave;) and, sobbing often, he", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Reflected on his present situation,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And seriously resolved on reformation.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Farewell, my Spain! a long farewell!” he cried,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Perhaps I may revisit thee no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But die, as many an exiled heart hath died,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of its own thirst to see again thy shore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farewell, where Guadalquivir’s waters glide!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Farewell, my mother! and, since all is o’er,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farewell, too, dearest Julia!⁠—(here he drew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her letter out again, and read it through.)", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And oh! if e’er I should forget, I swear⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that’s impossible, and cannot be⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sooner shall this blue Ocean melt to air,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sooner shall Earth resolve itself to sea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Than I resign thine image, oh, my fair!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or think of anything, excepting thee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A mind diseased no remedy can physic⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Here the ship gave a lurch, and he grew sea-sick.)", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Sooner shall Heaven kiss earth⁠—(here he fell sicker)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Oh, Julia! what is every other woe?⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For God’s sake let me have a glass of liquor;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pedro, Battista, help me down below.)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Julia, my love!⁠—(you rascal, Pedro, quicker)⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Oh, Julia!⁠—(this curst vessel pitches so)⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Belovèd Julia, hear me still beseeching!”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Here he grew inarticulate with retching.)", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He felt that chilling heaviness of heart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or rather stomach, which, alas! attends,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beyond the best apothecary’s art,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The loss of Love, the treachery of friends,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or death of those we dote on, when a part", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of us dies with them as each fond hope ends:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No doubt he would have been much more pathetic,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But the sea acted as a strong emetic.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Love’s a capricious power: I’ve known it hold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out through a fever caused by its own heat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But be much puzzled by a cough and cold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And find a quinsy very hard to treat;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against all noble maladies he’s bold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But vulgar illnesses don’t like to meet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor that a sneeze should interrupt his sigh,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor inflammations redden his blind eye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But worst of all is nausea, or a pain", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "About the lower region of the bowels;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Love, who heroically breathes a vein,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shrinks from the application of hot towels,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And purgatives are dangerous to his reign,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sea-sickness death: his love was perfect, how else", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could Juan’s passion, while the billows roar,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Resist his stomach, ne’er at sea before?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The ship, called the most holy “Trinidada,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was steering duly for the port Leghorn;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For there the Spanish family Moncada", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were settled long ere Juan’s sire was born:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They were relations, and for them he had a", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Letter of introduction, which the morn", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his departure had been sent him by", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His Spanish friends for those in Italy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His suite consisted of three servants and", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A tutor, the licentiate Pedrillo,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who several languages did understand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But now lay sick and speechless on his pillow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, rocking in his hammock, longed for land,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His headache being increased by every billow;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the waves oozing through the port-hole made", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His berth a little damp, and him afraid.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Twas not without some reason, for the wind", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Increased at night, until it blew a gale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though ’twas not much to a naval mind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some landsmen would have looked a little pale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sailors are, in fact, a different kind:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At sunset they began to take in sail,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the sky showed it would come on to blow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And carry away, perhaps, a mast or so.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At one o’clock the wind with sudden shift", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Threw the ship right into the trough of the sea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which struck her aft, and made an awkward rift,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Started the stern-post, also shattered the", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whole of her stern-frame, and, ere she could lift", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Herself from out her present jeopardy,", 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I’m glad to make them known", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To all the brother tars who may have need hence,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For fifty tons of water were upthrown", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By them per hour, and they had all been undone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But for the maker, Mr. Mann, of London.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As day advanced the weather seemed to abate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then the leak they reckoned to reduce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And keep the ship afloat, though three feet yet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Kept two hand⁠—and one chain-pump still in use.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wind blew fresh again: as it grew late", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A squall came on, and while some guns broke loose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A gust⁠—which all descriptive power transcends⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Laid with one blast the ship on her beam ends.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There she lay, motionless, and seemed upset;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The water left the hold, and washed the decks,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made a scene men do not soon forget;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For they remember battles, fires, and wrecks,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or any other thing that brings regret", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or breaks their hopes, or hearts, or heads, or necks:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus drownings are much talked of by the divers,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And swimmers, who may chance to be survivors.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Immediately the masts were cut away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Both main and mizen; first the mizen went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The main-mast followed: but the ship still lay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like a mere log, and baffled our intent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foremast and bowsprit were cut down, and they", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Eased her at last (although we never meant", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To part with all till every hope was blighted),", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then with violence the old ship righted.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It may be easily supposed, while this", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was going on, some people were unquiet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That passengers would find it much amiss", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To lose their lives, as well as spoil their diet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even the able seaman, deeming his", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Days nearly o’er, might be disposed to riot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As upon such occasions tars will ask", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For grog, and sometimes drink rum from the cask.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There’s nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As rum and true religion: thus it was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some plundered, some drank spirits, some sung psalms,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The high wind made the treble, and as bass", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hoarse harsh waves kept time; fright cured the qualms", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all the luckless landsmen’s sea-sick maws:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strange sounds of wailing, blasphemy, devotion,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Clamoured in chorus to the roaring Ocean.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Perhaps more mischief had been done, but for", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Our Juan, who, with sense beyond his years,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Got to the spirit-room, and stood before", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It with a pair of pistols; and their fears,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if Death were more dreadful by his door", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of fire than water, spite of oaths and tears,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Kept still aloof the crew, who, ere they sunk,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thought it would be becoming to die drunk.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Give us more grog,” they cried, “for it will be", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All one an hour hence.” Juan answered, “No!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "’Tis true that Death awaits both you and me,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But let us die like men, not sink below", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like brutes:”⁠—and thus his dangerous post kept he,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And none liked to anticipate the blow;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And even Pedrillo, his most reverend tutor,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was for some rum a disappointed suitor.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The good old gentleman was quite aghast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And made a loud and pious lamentation;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Repented all his sins, and made a last", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Irrevocable vow of reformation;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nothing should tempt him more (this peril past)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To quit his academic occupation,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In cloisters of the classic Salamanca,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To follow Juan’s wake, like Sancho Panca.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But now there came a flash of hope once more;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Day broke, and the wind lulled: the masts were gone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The leak increased; shoals round her, but no shore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The vessel swam, yet still she held her own.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They tried the pumps again, and though before", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their desperate efforts seemed all useless grown,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A glimpse of sunshine set some hands to bale⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The stronger pumped, the weaker thrummed a sail.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Under the vessel’s keel the sail was passed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And for the moment it had some effect;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with a leak, and not a stick of mast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor rag of canvas, what could they expect?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still ’tis best to struggle to the last,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "’Tis never too late to be wholly wrecked:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though ’tis true that man can only die once,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "’Tis not so pleasant in the Gulf of Lyons.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There winds and waves had hurled them, and from thence,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Without their will, they carried them away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they were forced with steering to dispense,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And never had as yet a quiet day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which they might repose, or even commence", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A jurymast or rudder, or could say", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ship would swim an hour, which, by good luck,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Still swam⁠—though not exactly like a duck.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wind, in fact, perhaps, was rather less,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But the ship laboured so, they scarce could hope", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weather out much longer; the distress", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was also great with which they had to cope", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For want of water, and their solid mess", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was scant enough: in vain the telescope", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was used⁠—nor sail nor shore appeared in sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nought but the heavy sea, and coming night.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Again the weather threatened⁠—again blew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A gale, and in the fore and after hold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Water appeared; yet, though the people knew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All this, the most were patient, and some bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Until the chains and leathers were worn through", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all our pumps:⁠—a wreck complete she rolled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At mercy of the waves, whose mercies are", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like human beings during civil war.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then came the carpenter, at last, with tears", "indent": 0 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"indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who told him to be damned⁠—in his confusion.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Some lashed them in their hammocks; some put on", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their best clothes, as if going to a fair;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some cursed the day on which they saw the Sun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gnashed their teeth, and, howling, tore their hair;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And others went on as they had begun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Getting the boats out, being well aware", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That a tight boat will live in a rough sea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unless with breakers close beneath her lee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The worst of all was, that in their condition,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Having been several days in great distress,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "’Twas difficult to get out such provision", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As now might render their long suffering less:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Men, even when dying, dislike inanition;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their stock was damaged by the weather’s stress:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two casks of biscuit, and a keg of butter,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were all that could be thrown into the cutter.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But in the long-boat they contrived to stow", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some pounds of bread, though injured by the wet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Water, a twenty-gallon cask or so;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Six flasks of wine; and they contrived to get", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A portion of their beef up from below,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with a piece of pork, moreover, met,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But scarce enough to serve them for a luncheon⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then there was rum, eight gallons in a puncheon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The other boats, the yawl and pinnace, had", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Been stove in the beginning of the gale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the long-boat’s condition was but bad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As there were but two blankets for a sail,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And one oar for a mast, which a young lad", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Threw in by good luck over the ship’s rail;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And two boats could not hold, far less be stored,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To save one half the people then on board.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Over the waste of waters; like a veil,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of one whose hate is masked but to assail.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus to their hopeless eyes the night was shown,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And grimly darkled o’er the faces pale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the dim desolate deep: twelve days had Fear", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Been their familiar, and now Death was here.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Some trial had been making at a raft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With little hope in such a rolling sea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sort of thing at which one would have laughed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If any laughter at such times could be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unless with people who too much have quaffed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And have a kind of wild and horrid glee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Half epileptical, and half hysterical:⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their preservation would have been a miracle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At half-past eight o’clock, booms, hencoops, spars,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all things, for a chance, had been cast loose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That still could keep afloat the struggling tars,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For yet they strove, although of no great use:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was no light in heaven but a few stars,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The boats put off o’ercrowded with their crews;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gave a heel, and then a lurch to port,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, going down head foremost⁠—sunk, in short.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As eager to anticipate their grave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the sea yawned around her like a hell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And down she sucked with her the whirling wave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like one who grapples with his enemy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And strives to strangle him before he die.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And first one universal shriek there rushed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Louder than the loud Ocean, like a crash", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of echoing thunder; and then all was hushed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of billows; but at intervals there gushed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Accompanied by a convulsive splash,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of some strong swimmer in his agony.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The boats, as stated, had got off before,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in them crowded several of the crew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet their present hope was hardly more", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Than what it had been, for so strong it blew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was slight chance of reaching any shore;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then they were too many, though so few⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nine in the cutter, thirty in the boat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were counted in them when they got afloat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All the rest perished; near two hundred souls", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had left their bodies; and what’s worse, alas!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When over Catholics the Ocean rolls,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They must wait several weeks before a mass", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Because, till people know what’s come to pass,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They won’t lay out their money on the dead⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It costs three francs for every mass that’s said.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Juan got into the long-boat, and there", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Contrived to help Pedrillo to a place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It seemed as if they had exchanged their care,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Juan wore the magisterial face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which courage gives, while poor Pedrillo’s pair", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of eyes were crying for their owner’s case:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Battista, though, (a name called shortly Tita),", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was lost by getting at some aqua-vita.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Pedro, his valet, too, he tried to save,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But the same cause, conducive to his loss,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Left him so drunk, he jumped into the wave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As o’er the cutter’s edge he tried to cross,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so he found a wine-and-watery grave;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They could not rescue him although so close,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because the sea ran higher every minute,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And for the boat⁠—the crew kept crowding in it.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A small old spaniel⁠—which had been Don José’s,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His father’s, whom he loved, as ye may think,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For on such things the memory reposes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With tenderness⁠—stood howling on the brink,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knowing, (dogs have such intellectual noses!)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No doubt, the vessel was about to sink;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Juan caught him up, and ere he stepped", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Off threw him in, then after him he leaped.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He also stuffed his money where he could", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "About his person, and Pedrillo’s too,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who let him do, in fact, whate’er he would,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not knowing what himself to say, or do,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As every rising wave his dread renewed;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But Juan, trusting they might still get through,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deeming there were remedies for any ill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus re-embarked his tutor and his spaniel.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Twas a rough night, and blew so stiffly yet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That the sail was becalmed between the seas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though on the wave’s high top too much to set,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They dared not take it in for all the breeze:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each sea curled o’er the stern, and kept them wet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And made them bale without a moment’s ease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that themselves as well as hopes were damped,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the poor little cutter quickly swamped.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nine souls more went in her: the long-boat still", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Kept above water, with an oar for mast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two blankets stitched together, answering ill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Instead of sail, were to the oar made fast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though every wave rolled menacing to fill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And present peril all before surpassed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They grieved for those who perished with the cutter,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And also for the biscuit-casks and butter.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The sun rose red and fiery, a sure sign", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the continuance of the gale: to run", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before the sea until it should grow fine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was all that for the present could be done:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A few tea-spoonfuls of their rum and wine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were served out to the people, who begun", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To faint, and damaged bread wet through the bags,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And most of them had little clothes but rags.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They counted thirty, crowded in a space", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which left scarce room for motion or exertion;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They did their best to modify their case,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One half sate up, though numbed with the immersion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "While t’ other half were laid down in their place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At watch and watch; thus, shivering like the tertian", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ague in its cold fit, they filled their boat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With nothing but the sky for a great coat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Tis very certain the desire of life", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Prolongs it: this is obvious to physicians,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When patients, neither plagued with friends nor wife,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Survive through very desperate conditions,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because they still can hope, nor shines the knife", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor shears of Atropos before their visions:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Despair of all recovery spoils longevity,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And makes men’s misery of alarming brevity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Tis said that persons living on annuities", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are longer lived than others⁠—God knows why,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unless to plague the grantors⁠—yet so true it is,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That some, I really think, do never die:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of any creditors the worst a Jew it is,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And that’s their mode of furnishing supply:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In my young days they lent me cash that way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which I found very troublesome to pay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Tis thus with people in an open boat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They live upon the love of Life, and bear", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More than can be believed, or even thought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And stand like rocks the tempest’s wear and tear;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hardship still has been the sailor’s lot,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Since Noah’s ark went cruising here and there;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She had a curious crew as well as cargo,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But man is a carnivorous production,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And must have meals, at least one meal a day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Although his anatomical construction", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your labouring people think, beyond all question,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beef, veal, and mutton, better for digestion.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And thus it was with this our hapless crew;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For on the third day there came on a calm,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though at first their strength it might renew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And lying on their weariness like balm,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lulled them like turtles sleeping on the blue", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Ocean, when they woke they felt a qualm,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fell all ravenously on their provision,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Instead of hoarding it with due precision.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The consequence was easily foreseen⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They ate up all they had, and drank their wine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In spite of all remonstrances, and then", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On what, in fact, next day were they to dine?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They hoped the wind would rise, these foolish men!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And carry them to shore; these hopes were fine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But as they had but one oar, and that brittle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It would have been more wise to save their victual.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The fourth day came, but not a breath of air,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Ocean slumbered like an unweaned child:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fifth day, and their boat lay floating there,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The sea and sky were blue, and clear, and mild⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With their one oar (I wish they had had a pair)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What could they do? and Hunger’s rage grew wild:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So Juan’s spaniel, spite of his entreating,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was killed, and portioned out for present eating.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "On the sixth day they fed upon his hide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Juan, who had still refused, because", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The creature was his father’s dog that died,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now feeling all the vulture in his jaws,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With some remorse received (though first denied)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As a great favour one of the fore-paws,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he divided with Pedrillo, who", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Devoured it, longing for the other too.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The seventh day, and no wind⁠—the burning sun", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Blistered and scorched, and, stagnant on the sea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They lay like carcasses; and hope was none,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save in the breeze that came not: savagely", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They glared upon each other⁠—all was done,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Water, and wine, and food⁠—and you might see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The longings of the cannibal arise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Although they spoke not) in their wolfish eyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length one whispered his companion, who", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whispered another, and thus it went round,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then into a hoarser murmur grew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "An ominous, and wild, and desperate sound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when his comrade’s thought each sufferer knew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "’Twas but his own, suppressed till now, he found:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And out they spoke of lots for flesh and blood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And who should die to be his fellow’s food.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But ere they came to this, they that day shared", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some leathern caps, and what remained of shoes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then they looked around them, and despaired,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And none to be the sacrifice would choose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length the lots were torn up, and prepared,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But of materials that must shock the Muse⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having no paper, for the want of better,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They took by force from Juan Julia’s letter.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The lots were made, and marked, and mixed, and handed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In silent horror, and their distribution", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lulled even the savage hunger which demanded,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like the Promethean vulture, this pollution;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "None in particular had sought or planned it,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "’Twas Nature gnawed them to this resolution,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which none were permitted to be neuter⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the lot fell on Juan’s luckless tutor.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He but requested to be bled to death:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The surgeon had his instruments, and bled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pedrillo, and so gently ebbed his breath,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "You hardly could perceive when he was dead.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He died as born, a Catholic in faith,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like most in the belief in which they’re bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And first a little crucifix he kissed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then held out his jugular and wrist.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The surgeon, as there was no other fee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had his first choice of morsels for his pains;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being thirstiest at the moment, he", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Preferred a draught from the 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awful in the extreme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they, who were most ravenous in the act,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Went raging mad⁠—Lord! how they did blaspheme!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And foam, and roll, with strange convulsions racked,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Drinking salt-water like a mountain-stream,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tearing, and grinning, howling, screeching, swearing,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, with hyaena-laughter, died despairing.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Their numbers were much thinned by this infliction,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all the rest were thin enough, Heaven knows;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some of them had lost their recollection,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Happier than they who still perceived their woes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But others pondered on a new dissection,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if not warned sufficiently by those", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who had already perished, suffering madly,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For having used their appetites so sadly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And next they thought upon the master’s mate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As fattest; but he saved himself, because,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides being much averse from such a fate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There were some other reasons: the first was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had been rather indisposed of late;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And⁠—that which chiefly proved his saving clause⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was a small present made to him at Cadiz,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By general subscription of the ladies.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of poor Pedrillo something still remained,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But was used sparingly⁠—some were afraid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And others still their appetites constrained,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or but at times a little supper made;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All except Juan, who throughout 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till taught by pain,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Men really know not what good water’s worth;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or with a famished boat’s-crew had your berth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or in the desert heard the camel’s bell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "You’d wish yourself where Truth is⁠—in a well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It poured down torrents, but they were no richer", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Until they found a ragged piece of sheet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which served them as a sort of spongy pitcher,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And when they deemed its moisture was complete,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They wrung it out, and though a thirsty ditcher", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Might not have thought the scanty draught so sweet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As a full pot of porter, to their thinking", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They ne’er till now had known the joys of drinking.", "indent": 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and said, “Heaven’s will be done!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I can do nothing,” and he saw him thrown", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into the deep without a tear or groan.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The other father had a weaklier child,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of a soft cheek, and aspect delicate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the boy bore up long, and with a mild", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And patient spirit held aloof his fate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Little he said, and now and then he smiled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if to win a part from off the weight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He saw increasing on his father’s heart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With the deep deadly thought, that they must part.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And o’er him bent his sire, and never raised", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His eyes from off his face, but wiped the foam", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his pale lips, and ever on him gazed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And when the 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{ "text": "Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Should suck him back to her insatiate grave:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there he lay, full length, where he was flung,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Before the entrance of a cliff-worn cave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With just enough of life to feel its pain,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And deem that it was saved, perhaps, in vain.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With slow and staggering effort he arose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But sunk again upon his bleeding knee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And quivering hand; and then he looked for those", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who long had been his mates upon the sea;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none of them appeared to share his woes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save one, a corpse, from out the famished three,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who died two days before, and now had 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faintness passed away", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He knew not, till each painful pulse and limb,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tingling vein, seemed throbbing back to life,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Death, though vanquished, still retired with strife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His eyes he opened, shut, again unclosed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For all was doubt and dizziness; he thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He still was in the boat, and had but dozed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And felt again with his despair o’erwrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wished it Death in which he had reposed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then once more his feelings back were brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And slowly by his swimming eyes was seen", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A lovely female face of seventeen.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Twas bending close o’er his, and the small mouth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seemed almost prying into his for breath;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chafing him, the soft warm hand of youth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Recalled his answering spirits back from Death:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, bathing his chill temples, tried to soothe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each pulse to animation, till beneath", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Its gentle touch and trembling care, a sigh", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To these kind efforts made a low reply.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then was the cordial poured, and mantle flung", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Around his scarce-clad limbs; and the fair arm", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Raised higher the faint head which o’er it hung;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And her transparent cheek, all pure and warm,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pillowed his death-like forehead; then she wrung", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His dewy curls, long drenched by every storm;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And watched with eagerness each throb that drew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A sigh from his heaved bosom⁠—and hers, too.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And lifting him with care into the cave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The gentle girl, and her attendant⁠—one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Young, yet her elder, and of brow less grave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And more robust of figure⁠—then begun", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To kindle fire, and as the new flames gave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Light to the rocks that roofed them, which the sun", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had never seen, the maid, or whatsoe’er", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She was, appeared distinct, and tall, and fair.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her brow was overhung with coins of gold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That sparkled o’er the auburn of her hair⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her clustering hair, whose longer locks were rolled", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In braids behind; and though her stature were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even of the highest for a female mould,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They nearly reached her heel; and in her air", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was a something which bespoke command,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As one who was a Lady in the land.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her hair, I said, was auburn; but her eyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were black as Death, their lashes the same hue,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of downcast length, in whose silk shadow lies", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Deepest attraction; for when to the view", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forth from its raven fringe the full glance flies,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne’er with such force the swiftest arrow flew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "’Tis as the snake late coiled, who pours his length,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hurls at once his venom and his strength.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her brow was white and low, her cheek’s pure dye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like twilight rosy still with the set sun;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Short upper lip⁠—sweet lips! that make us sigh", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ever to have seen such; for she was one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fit for the model of a statuary", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(A race of mere impostors, when all’s done⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I’ve seen much finer women, ripe and real,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal).", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "I’ll tell you why I say so, for ’tis just", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One should not rail without a decent cause:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was an Irish lady, to whose bust", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I ne’er saw justice done, and yet she was", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A frequent model; and if e’er she must", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yield to stern Time and Nature’s wrinkling laws,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They will destroy a face which mortal thought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne’er compassed, nor less mortal chisel wrought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And such was she, the lady of the cave:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her dress was very different from the Spanish,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Simpler, and yet of colours not so grave;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For, as you know, the Spanish women banish", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bright hues when out of doors, and yet, while wave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Around them (what I hope will never vanish)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The basquiña and the mantilla, they", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seem at the same time mystical and gay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But with our damsel this was not the case:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her dress was many-coloured, finely spun;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her locks curled negligently round her face,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But through them gold and gems profusely shone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her girdle sparkled, and the richest lace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flowed in her veil, and many a precious stone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Flashed on her little hand; but, what was shocking,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her small snow feet had slippers, but no stocking.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The other female’s dress was not unlike,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But of inferior materials: she", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not so many ornaments to strike,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her hair had silver only, bound to be", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her dowry; and her veil, in form alike,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was coarser; and her air, though firm, less free;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her hair was thicker, but less long; her eyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As black, but quicker, and of smaller size.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And these two tended him, and cheered him both", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With food and raiment, and those soft attentions,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which are⁠—as I must own⁠—of female growth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And have ten thousand delicate inventions:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They made a most superior mess of broth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A thing which poesy but seldom mentions,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the best dish that e’er was cooked since Homer’s", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Achilles ordered dinner for new comers.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "I’ll tell you who they were, this female pair,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lest they should seem Princesses in disguise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides, I hate all mystery, and that air", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of clap-trap, which your recent poets prize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so, in short, the girls they really were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They shall appear before your curious eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mistress and maid; the first was only daughter", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of an old man, who lived upon the water.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A fisherman he had been in his youth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And still a sort of fisherman was he;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But 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"indent": 0 }, { "text": "How to accept a better in his turn.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And walking out upon the beach, below", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The cliff, towards sunset, on that day she found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Insensible⁠—not dead, but nearly so⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Don Juan, almost famished, and half drowned;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being naked, she was shocked, you know,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet deemed herself in common pity bound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As far as in her lay, “to take him in,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A stranger” dying⁠—with so white a skin.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But taking him into her father’s house", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was not exactly the best way to save,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But like conveying to the cat the mouse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or people in a trance into their grave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because the good old man had so much “νους,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": 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}, { "text": "Some broken planks, and oars, that to the touch", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were nearly tinder, since, so long they lay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A mast was almost crumbled to a crutch;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, by God’s grace, here wrecks were in such plenty,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That there was fuel to have furnished twenty.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He had a bed of furs, and a pelisse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Haidée stripped her sables off to make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His couch; and, that he might be more at ease,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And warm, in case by chance he should awake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They also gave a petticoat apiece,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She and her maid⁠—and promised by daybreak", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To pay him a fresh visit, with a dish", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For breakfast, of eggs, coffee, bread, and fish.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And thus they left him to his lone repose:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Juan slept like a top, or like the dead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who sleep at last, perhaps (God only knows),", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Just for the present; and in his lulled head", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not even a vision of his former woes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Throbbed in accursèd dreams, which sometimes spread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwelcome visions of our former years,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till the eye, cheated, opens thick with tears.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Young Juan slept all dreamless:⁠—but the maid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who smoothed his pillow, as she left the den", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Looked back upon him, and a moment stayed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And turned, believing that he called again.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He slumbered; yet she thought, at least she said", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(The heart will slip, even as the tongue and pen),", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had pronounced her name⁠—but she forgot", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That at this moment Juan knew it not.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And pensive to her father’s house she went,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Enjoining silence strict to Zoe, who", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Better than her knew what, in fact, she meant,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She being wiser by a year or two:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A year or two’s an age when rightly spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Zoe spent hers, as most women do,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In gaining all that useful sort of knowledge", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which is acquired in Nature’s good old college.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The morn broke, and found Juan slumbering still", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fast in his cave, and nothing clashed upon", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His rest; the rushing of the neighbouring rill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the young beams of the excluded Sun,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Troubled him not, and he might sleep his fill;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And need he had of slumber yet, for none", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had suffered more⁠—his hardships were comparative", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To those related in my grand-dad’s “Narrative.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Not so Haidée: she sadly tossed and tumbled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And started from her sleep, and, turning o’er,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dreamed of a thousand wrecks, o’er which she stumbled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And handsome corpses strewed upon the shore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And woke her maid so early that she grumbled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And called her father’s old slaves up, who swore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In several oaths⁠—Armenian, Turk, and Greek⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They knew not what to think of such a freak.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But up she got, and up she made them get,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With some pretence about the Sun, that makes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweet skies just when he rises, or is set;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And ’tis, no doubt, a sight to see when breaks", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bright Phoebus, while the mountains still are wet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With mist, and every bird with him awakes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And night is flung off like a mourning suit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Worn for a husband⁠—or some other brute.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "I say, the Sun is a most glorious sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I’ve seen him rise full oft, indeed of late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I have sat up on purpose all the night,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which hastens, as physicians say, one’s fate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so all ye, who would be in the right", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In health and purse, begin your day to date", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From daybreak, and when coffined at fourscore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Engrave upon the plate, you rose at four.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And Haidée met the morning face to face;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her own was freshest, though a feverish flush", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had dyed it with the headlong blood, whose race", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From heart to cheek is curbed into a blush,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to a torrent which a mountain’s base,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That overpowers some Alpine river’s rush,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Checks to a lake, whose waves in circles spread;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or the Red Sea⁠—but the sea is not red.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And down the cliff the island virgin came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And near the cave her quick light footsteps drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "While the Sun smiled on her with his first flame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And young Aurora kissed her lips with dew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Taking her for a sister; just the same", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mistake you would have made on seeing the two,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Although the mortal, quite as fresh and fair,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had all the advantage, too, of not being air.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And when into the cavern Haidée stepped", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All timidly, yet rapidly, she saw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like an infant Juan sweetly slept;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then she stopped, and stood as if in awe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For sleep is awful), and on tiptoe crept", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wrapped him closer, lest the air, too raw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should reach his blood, then o’er him still as Death", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bent, with hushed lips, that drank his scarce-drawn breath.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And thus like to an Angel o’er the dying", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who die in righteousness, she leaned; and there", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All tranquilly the shipwrecked boy was lying,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As o’er him lay the calm and stirless air:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Zoe the meantime some eggs was frying,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Since, after all, no doubt the youthful pair", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Must breakfast⁠—and, betimes, lest they should ask it,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She drew out her provision from the basket.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She knew that the best feelings must have victual,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And that a shipwrecked youth would hungry be;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides, being less in love, she yawned a little,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And felt her veins chilled by the neighbouring sea;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so, she cooked their breakfast to a tittle;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I can’t say that she gave them any tea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But there were eggs, fruit, coffee, bread, fish, honey,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With Scio wine⁠—and all for love, not money.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And Zoe, when the eggs were ready, and", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The coffee made, would fain have wakened Juan;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Haidée stopped her with her quick small hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And without word, a sign her finger drew on", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her lip, which Zoe needs must understand;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, the first breakfast spoilt, prepared a new one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because her mistress would not let her break", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That sleep which seemed as it would ne’er awake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A purple hectic played like dying day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On the snow-tops of distant hills; the streak", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where the blue veins looked shadowy, shrunk, and weak;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And his black curls were dewy with the spray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which weighed upon them yet, all damp and salt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mixed with the stony vapours of the vault.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And she bent o’er him, and he lay beneath,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hushed as the babe upon its mother’s breast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drooped as the willow when no winds can breathe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lulled like the depth of Ocean when at rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fair as the crowning rose of the whole wreath,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Soft as the callow cygnet in its nest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In short, he was a very pretty fellow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Although his woes had turned him rather yellow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He woke and gazed, and would have slept again,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But the fair face which met his eyes forbade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those eyes to close, though weariness and pain", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had further sleep a further pleasure made:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Woman’s face was never formed in vain", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Juan, so that even when he prayed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He turned from grisly saints, and martyrs hairy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To the sweet portraits of the Virgin Mary.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And thus upon his elbow he arose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And looked upon the lady, in whose cheek", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The pale contended with the purple rose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As with an effort she began to speak;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her eyes were eloquent, her words would pose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Although she told him, in good modern Greek,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With an Ionian accent, low and sweet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That he was faint, and must not talk, but eat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now Juan could not understand a word,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Being no Grecian; but he had an ear,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her voice was the warble of a bird,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That finer, simpler music ne’er was heard;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The sort of sound we echo with a tear,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without knowing why⁠—an overpowering tone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whence Melody descends as from a throne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And Juan gazed as one who is awoke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By a distant organ, doubting if he be", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not yet a dreamer, till the spell is broke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By the watchman, or some such reality,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or by one’s early valet’s cursèd knock;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At least it is a heavy sound to me,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who like a morning slumber⁠—for the night", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shows stars and women in a better light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And Juan, too, was helped out from his dream,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or sleep, or whatsoe’er it was, by feeling", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A most prodigious appetite; the steam", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Zoe’s cookery no doubt was stealing", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his senses, and the kindling beam", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the new fire, which Zoe kept up, kneeling,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stir her viands, made him quite awake", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And long for food, but chiefly a beef-steak.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But beef is rare within these oxless isles;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Goat’s flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, when a holiday upon them smiles,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But this occurs but seldom, between whiles,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For some of these are rocks with scarce a hut on;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Others are fair and fertile, among which", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This, though not large, was one of the most rich.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "I say that beef is rare, and can’t help thinking", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That the old fable of the Minotaur⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From which our modern morals, rightly shrinking,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Condemn the royal lady’s taste who wore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A cow’s shape for a mask⁠—was only (sinking", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The allegory) a mere type, no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Pasiphae promoted breeding cattle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To make the Cretans bloodier in battle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For we all know that English people are", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fed upon beef⁠—I won’t say much of beer,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because ’tis liquor only, and being far", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From this my subject, has no business here;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "We know, too, they are very fond of war,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A pleasure⁠—like all pleasures⁠—rather dear;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So were the Cretans⁠—from which I infer,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That beef and battles both were owing to her.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But to resume. The languid Juan raised", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His head upon his elbow, and he saw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sight on which he had not lately gazed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As all his latter meals had been quite raw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Three or four things, for which the Lord he praised,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, feeling still the famished vulture gnaw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He fell upon whate’er was offered, like", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A priest, a shark, an alderman, or pike.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He ate, and he was well supplied; and she,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who watched him like a mother, would have fed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him past all bounds, because she smiled to see", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Such appetite in one she had deemed dead:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Zoe, being older than Haidée,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Knew (by tradition, for she ne’er had read)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That famished people must be slowly nurst,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And so she took the liberty to state,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rather by deeds than words, because the case", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was urgent, that the gentleman, whose fate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had made her mistress quit her bed to trace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sea-shore at this hour, must leave his plate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unless he wished to die upon the place⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She snatched it, and refused another morsel,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saying, he had gorged enough to make a horse ill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next they⁠—he being naked, save a tattered", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pair of scarce decent trousers⁠—went to work,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the fire his recent rags they scattered,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And dressed him, for the present, like a Turk,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or Greek⁠—that is, although it not much mattered,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Omitting turban, slippers, pistol, dirk⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They furnished him, entire, except some stitches,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With a clean shirt, and very spacious breeches.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And then fair Haidée tried her tongue at speaking,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But not a word could Juan comprehend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Although he listened so that the young Greek in", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her earnestness would ne’er have made an end;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, as he interrupted not, went eking", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her speech out to her protégé and friend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till pausing at the last her breath to take,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She saw he did not understand Romaic.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And then she had recourse to nods, and signs,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And smiles, and sparkles of the speaking eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And read (the only book she could) the lines", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his fair face, and found, by sympathy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The answer eloquent, where the Soul shines", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And darts in one quick glance a long reply;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thus in every look she saw expressed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A world of words, and things at which she guessed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now, by dint of fingers and of eyes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And words repeated after her, he took", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A lesson in her tongue; but by surmise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No doubt, less of her language than her look:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he who studies fervently the skies", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Turns oftener to the stars than to his book,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus Juan learned his alpha beta better", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From Haidée’s glance than any graven letter.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Tis pleasing to be schooled in a strange tongue", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By female lips and eyes⁠—that is, I mean,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When both the teacher and the taught are young,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As was the case, at least, where I have been;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They smile so when one’s right, and when one’s wrong", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They smile still more, and then there intervene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pressure of hands, perhaps even a chaste kiss;⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I learned the little that I know by this:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That is, some words of Spanish, Turk, and Greek,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Italian not at all, having no teachers;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much English I cannot pretend to speak,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Learning that language chiefly from its preachers,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Barrow, South, Tillotson, whom every week", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I study, also Blair⁠—the highest reachers", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of eloquence in piety and prose⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I hate your poets, so read none of those.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As for the ladies, I have nought to say,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A wanderer from the British world of Fashion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where I, like other “dogs, have had my day,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like other men, too, may have had my passion⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that, like other things, has passed away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all her fools whom I could lay the lash on:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But dreams of what has been, no more to be.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Return we to Don Juan. He begun", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hear new words, and to repeat them; but", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some feelings, universal as the Sun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were such as could not in his breast be shut", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More than within the bosom of a nun:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He was in love⁠—as you would be, no doubt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With a young benefactress⁠—so was she,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Just in the way we very often see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And every day by daybreak⁠—rather early", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Juan, who was somewhat fond of rest⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She came into the cave, but it was merely", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To see her bird reposing in his nest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she would softly stir his locks so curly,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Without disturbing her yet slumbering guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Breathing all gently o’er his cheek and mouth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As o’er a bed of roses the sweet South.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And every morn his colour freshlier came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And every day helped on his convalescence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "’Twas well, because health in the human frame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is pleasant, besides being true Love’s essence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For health and idleness to Passion’s flame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are oil and gunpowder; and some good lessons", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Without whom Venus will not long attack us.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "While Venus fills the heart, (without heart really", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Love, though good always, is not quite so good,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ceres presents a plate of vermicelli⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Love must be sustained like flesh and blood⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "While Bacchus pours out wine, or hands a jelly:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Eggs, oysters, too, are amatory food;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But who is their purveyor from above", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Heaven knows⁠—it may be Neptune, Pan, or Jove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When Juan woke he found some good things ready,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A bath, a breakfast, and the finest eyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever made a youthful heart less steady,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Besides her maid’s, as pretty for their size;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But I have spoken of all this already⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A repetition’s tiresome and unwise⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well⁠—Juan, after bathing in the sea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came always back to coffee and Haidée.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Both were so young, and one so innocent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That bathing passed for nothing; Juan seemed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her, as ’twere, the kind of being sent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of whom these two years she had nightly dreamed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A something to be loved, a creature meant", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be her happiness, and whom she deemed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To render happy; all who joy would win", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Must share it⁠—Happiness was born a Twin.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was such pleasure to behold him, such", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Enlargement of existence to partake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nature with him, to thrill beneath his touch,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To watch him slumbering, and to see him wake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To live with him for ever were too much;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But then the thought of parting made her quake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was her own, her ocean-treasure, cast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like a rich wreck⁠—her first love, and her last.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And thus a moon rolled on, and fair Haidée", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Paid daily visits to her boy, and took", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such plentiful precautions, that still he", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Remained unknown within his craggy nook;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last her father’s prows put out to sea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For certain merchantmen upon the look,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not as of yore to carry off an Io,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But three Ragusan vessels, bound for Scio.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then came her freedom, for she had no mother,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So that, her father being at sea, she was", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Free as a married woman, or such other", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Female, as where she likes may freely pass,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without even the encumbrance of a brother,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The freest she that ever gazed on glass:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I speak of Christian lands in this comparison,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where wives, at least, are seldom kept in garrison.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now she prolonged her visits and her talk", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(For they must talk), and he had learnt to say", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So much as to propose to take a walk⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For little had he wandered since the day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which, like a young flower snapped from the stalk,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Drooping and dewy on the beach he lay⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thus they walked out in the afternoon,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And saw the sun set opposite the moon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was a wild and breaker-beaten coast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With cliffs above, and a broad sandy shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Guarded by shoals and rocks as by an host,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With here and there a creek, whose aspect wore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A better welcome to the tempest-tost;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And rarely ceased the haughty billow’s roar,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save on the dead long summer days, which make", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The outstretched Ocean glitter like a lake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And the small ripple spilt upon the beach", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Scarcely o’erpassed the cream of your champagne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When o’er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart’s rain!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who please⁠—the more because they preach in vain⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let us have Wine and Woman, Mirth and Laughter,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sermons and soda-water the day after.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The best of Life is but intoxication:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Glory, the Grape, Love, Gold, in these are sunk", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The hopes of all men, and of every nation;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Life’s strange tree, so fruitful on occasion!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to return⁠—Get very drunk, and when", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "You wake with headache⁠—you shall see what then!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ring for your valet⁠—bid him quickly bring", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some hock and soda-water, then you’ll know", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A pleasure worthy Xerxes the great king;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For not the blest sherbet, sublimed with snow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor the first sparkle of the desert-spring,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor Burgundy in all its sunset glow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After long travel, Ennui, Love, or Slaughter,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Vie with that draught of hock and soda-water!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The coast⁠—I think it was the coast that I", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was just describing⁠—Yes, it was the coast⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lay at this period quiet as the sky,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The sands untumbled, the blue waves untossed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all was stillness, save the sea-bird’s cry,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And dolphin’s leap, and little billow crossed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against the boundary it scarcely wet.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And forth they wandered, her sire being gone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As I have said, upon an expedition;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mother, brother, guardian, she had none,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save Zoe, who, although with due precision", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She waited on her lady with the Sun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thought daily service was her only mission,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bringing warm water, wreathing her long tresses,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And asking now and then for cast-off dresses.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which then seems as if the whole earth it bounded,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Circling all Nature, hushed, and dim, and still,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the other, and the rosy sky", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With one star sparkling through it like an eye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And thus they wandered forth, and hand in hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Over the shining pebbles and the shells,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Glided along the smooth and hardened sand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in the worn and wild receptacles", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Worked by the storms, yet worked as it were planned", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In hollow halls, with sparry roofs and cells,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They turned to rest; and, each clasped by an arm,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yielded to the deep Twilight’s purple charm.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They looked up to the sky, whose floating glow", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Spread like a rosy Ocean, vast and bright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They gazed upon the glittering sea below,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whence the broad Moon rose circling into sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They heard the waves’ splash, and the wind so low,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And saw each other’s dark eyes darting light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into each other⁠—and, beholding this,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their lips drew near, and clung into a kiss;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A long, long kiss, a kiss of Youth, and Love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Beauty, all concentrating like rays", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into one focus, kindled from above;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Such kisses as belong to early days,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where Heart, and Soul, and Sense, in concert move,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the blood’s lava, and the pulse a blaze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each kiss a heart-quake⁠—for a kiss’s strength,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I think, it must be reckoned by its length.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By length I mean duration; theirs endured", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Heaven knows how long⁠—no doubt they never reckoned;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if they had, they could not have secured", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The sum of their sensations to a second:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They had not spoken, but they felt allured,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if their souls and lips each other beckoned,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, being joined, like swarming bees they clung⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their hearts the flowers from whence the honey sprung.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They were alone, but not alone as they", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who shut in chambers think it loneliness;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The silent Ocean, and the starlight bay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The twilight glow, which momently grew less,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The voiceless sands, and dropping caves, that lay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Around them, made them to each other press,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if there were no life beneath the sky", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save theirs, and that their life could never die.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They feared no eyes nor ears on that lone beach;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They felt no terrors from the night; they were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All in all to each other: though their speech", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was broken words, they thought a language there⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the burning tongues the Passions teach", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Found in one sigh the best interpreter", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Nature’s oracle⁠—first love⁠—that all", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which Eve has left her daughters since her fall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Haidée spoke not of scruples, asked no vows,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor offered any; she had never heard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of plight and promises to be a spouse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or perils by a loving maid incurred;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was all which pure Ignorance allows,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And flew to her young mate like a young bird;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, never having dreamt of falsehood, she", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had not one word to say of constancy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She loved, and was belovèd⁠—she adored,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And she was worshipped after Nature’s fashion⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their intense souls, into each other poured,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If souls could die, had perished in that passion⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by degrees their senses were restored,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Again to be o’ercome, again to dash on;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, beating ’gainst his bosom, Haidée’s heart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Felt as if never more to beat apart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Alas! they were so young, so beautiful,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was that in which the Heart is always full,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, having o’er itself no further power,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Prompts deeds Eternity can not annul,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But pays off moments in an endless shower", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of hell-fire⁠—all prepared for people giving", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pleasure or pain to one another living.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Alas! for Juan and Haidée! they were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So loving and so lovely⁠—till then never,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Excepting our first parents, such a pair", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had run the risk of being damned for ever:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Haidée, being devout as well as fair,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had, doubtless, heard about the Stygian river,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Hell and Purgatory⁠—but forgot", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Just in the very crisis she should not.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They look upon each other, and their eyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gleam in the moonlight; and her white arm clasps", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Round Juan’s head, and his around her lies", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Half buried in the tresses which it grasps;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She sits upon his knee, and drinks his sighs,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He hers, until they end in broken gasps;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thus they form a group that’s quite antique,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Half naked, loving, natural, and Greek.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And when those deep and burning moments passed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Juan sunk to sleep within her arms,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She slept not, but all tenderly, though fast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sustained his head upon her bosom’s charms;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now and then her eye to Heaven is cast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then on the pale cheek her breast now warms,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pillowed on her o’erflowing heart, which pants", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With all it granted, and with all it grants.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "An infant when it gazes on a light,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A child the moment when it drains the breast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A devotee when soars the Host in sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "An Arab with a stranger for a guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A miser filling his most hoarded chest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As they who watch o’er what they love while sleeping.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For there it lies so tranquil, so beloved,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All that it hath of Life with us is living;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So gentle, stirless, helpless, and unmoved,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all unconscious of the joy ’tis giving;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All it hath felt, inflicted, passed, and proved,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hushed into depths beyond the watcher’s diving:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There lies the thing we love with all its errors", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all its charms, like Death without its terrors.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Lady watched her lover⁠—and that hour", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Love’s, and Night’s, and Ocean’s solitude", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O’erflowed her soul with their united power;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Amidst the barren sand and rocks so rude", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She and her wave-worn love had made their bower,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where nought upon their passion could intrude,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the stars that crowded the blue space", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saw nothing happier than her glowing face.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Alas! the love of Women! it is known", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be a lovely and a fearful thing;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all of theirs upon that die is thrown,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And if ’tis lost, Life hath no more to bring", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them but mockeries of the past alone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And their revenge is as the tiger’s spring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Torture is theirs⁠—what they inflict they feel.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They are right; for Man, to man so oft unjust,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is always so to Women: one sole bond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Awaits them⁠—treachery is all their trust;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Taught to conceal their bursting hearts despond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Over their idol, till some wealthier lust", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Buys them in marriage⁠—and what rests beyond?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thankless husband⁠—next, a faithless lover⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then dressing, nursing, praying⁠—and all’s over.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Some take a lover, some take drams or prayers,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some mind their household, others dissipation,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some run away, and but exchange their cares,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Losing the advantage of a virtuous station;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Few changes e’er can better their affairs,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Theirs being an unnatural situation,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the dull palace to the dirty hovel:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some play the devil, and then write a novel.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Haidée was Nature’s bride, and knew not this;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Haidée was Passion’s child, born where the Sun", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Showers triple light, and scorches even the kiss", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his gazelle-eyed daughters; she was one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made but to love, to feel that she was his", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who was her chosen: what was said or done", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Elsewhere was nothing. She had nought to fear,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hope, care, nor love, beyond⁠—her heart beat here.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And oh! that quickening of the heart, that beat!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How much it costs us! yet each rising throb", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is in its cause as its effect so sweet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That Wisdom, ever on the watch to rob", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Joy of its alchemy, and to repeat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fine truths; even Conscience, too, has a tough job", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make us understand each good old maxim,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So good⁠—I wonder Castlereagh don’t tax ’em.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now ’twas done⁠—on the lone shore were plighted", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their hearts; the stars, their nuptial torches, shed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beauty upon the beautiful they lighted:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ocean their witness, and the cave their bed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By their own feelings hallowed and united,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their priest was Solitude, and they were wed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And they were happy⁠—for to their young eyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each was an angel, and earth Paradise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Oh, Love! of whom great Caesar was the suitor,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Titus the master, Antony the slave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Horace, Catullus, scholars⁠—Ovid tutor⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sappho the sage blue-stocking, in whose grave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All those may leap who rather would be neuter⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Leucadia’s rock still overlooks the wave)⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oh, Love! thou art the very God of evil,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For, after all, we cannot call thee Devil.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thou mak’st the chaste connubial state precarious,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And jestest with the brows of mightiest men:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Caesar and Pompey, Muhammad, Belisarius,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have much employed the Muse of History’s pen:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their lives and fortunes were extremely various,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Such worthies Time will never see again;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet to these four in three things the same luck holds,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They all were heroes, conquerors, and cuckolds.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thou mak’st philosophers; there’s Epicurus", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Aristippus, a material crew!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who to immoral courses would allure us", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By theories quite practicable too;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If only from the Devil they would insure us,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How pleasant were the maxim (not quite new),", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Eat, drink, and love, what can the rest avail us?”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So said the royal sage Sardanapalus.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Juan! had he quite forgotten Julia?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And should he have forgotten her so soon?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I can’t but say it seems to me most truly a", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Perplexing question; but, no doubt, the moon", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does these things for us, and whenever newly a", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Strong palpitation rises, ’tis her boon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Else how the devil is it that fresh features", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "I hate inconstancy⁠—I loathe, detest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Abhor, condemn, abjure the mortal made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of such quicksilver clay that in his breast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No permanent foundation can be laid;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Love, constant love, has been my constant guest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And yet last night, being at a masquerade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I saw the prettiest creature, fresh from Milan,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which gave me some sensations like a villain.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But soon Philosophy came to my aid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And whispered, “Think of every sacred tie!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“I will, my dear Philosophy!” I said,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“But then her teeth, and then, oh, Heaven! her eye!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I’ll just inquire if she be wife or maid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or neither⁠—out of curiosity.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Stop!” cried Philosophy, with air so Grecian,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Though she was masqued then as a fair Venetian;)", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Stop!” so I stopped.⁠—But to return: that which", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Men call inconstancy is nothing more", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Than admiration due where Nature’s rich", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Profusion with young beauty covers o’er", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some favoured object; and as in the niche", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A lovely statue we almost adore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This sort of adoration of the real", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is but a heightening of the beau ideal.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "’Tis the perception of the Beautiful,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A fine extension of the faculties,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Platonic, universal, wonderful,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without which Life would be extremely dull;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In short, it is the use of our own eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With one or two small senses added, just", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hint that flesh is formed of fiery dust.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet ’tis a painful feeling, and unwilling,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For surely if we always could perceive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the same object graces quite as killing", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As when she rose upon us like an Eve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "’T would save us many a heartache, many a shilling,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(For we must get them anyhow, or grieve),", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas if one sole lady pleased for ever,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How pleasant for the heart, as well as liver!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Heart is like the sky, a part of Heaven,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But changes night and day, too, like the sky;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now o’er it clouds and thunder must be driven,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Darkness and Destruction as on high:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when it hath been scorched, and pierced, and riven,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Its storms expire in water-drops; the eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pours forth at last the Heart’s blood turned to tears,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which make the English climate of our years.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The liver is the lazaret of bile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But very rarely executes its function,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the first passion stays there such a while,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That all the rest creep in and form a junction,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like knots of vipers on a dunghill’s soil⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rage, fear, hate, jealousy, revenge, compunction⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that all mischiefs spring up from this entrail,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like Earthquakes from the hidden fire called “central.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In the mean time, without proceeding more", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In this anatomy, I’ve finished now", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two hundred and odd stanzas as before,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That being about the number I’ll allow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each canto of the twelve, or twenty-four;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, laying down my pen, I make my bow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Leaving Don Juan and Haidée to plead", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For them and theirs with all who deign to read.", "indent": 0 } ] ] }