. Don Juan junior: a poem, by Byron's ghost. DON JUAN JUNIOR. CANTO IL I, Oh Time ! tliou art a sad fellow and playest The devil with our situate and being ;Grinding on thy grindstone down the gayest— And making their fine souls despicable and mean;For in such foul livery, thou arrayest Those, who were so youthful when poor Car was Queen ^Alas! that the beautiful and witty,Should eer be made a spectacle of pity ! II. But so it is. For what in a few years Makest thou the belle ?—the dame—the dowager: What the most graceful of our graceless peers ? Good Heavens ! how great his bulk! and such a b
. Don Juan junior: a poem, by Byron's ghost. DON JUAN JUNIOR. CANTO IL I, Oh Time ! tliou art a sad fellow and playest The devil with our situate and being ;Grinding on thy grindstone down the gayest— And making their fine souls despicable and mean;For in such foul livery, thou arrayest Those, who were so youthful when poor Car was Queen ^Alas! that the beautiful and witty,Should eer be made a spectacle of pity ! II. But so it is. For what in a few years Makest thou the belle ?—the dame—the dowager: What the most graceful of our graceless peers ? Good Heavens ! how great his bulk! and such a bear ^ ! And what all the ball-room host o pretty dears,Now so void of aught, save satin, silk, and hair ? Obese mothers to offspring giving suction, Nutrition, growth, and—and re-production. 60 DON JUAN JUNIOR. III. Well—of all thy time-pieces that is the worst,And most deserving signal reprobation, Which giveth fo]ks, innocent as our firstMa, direct or indirect intimation Of matters : cooling their young burning thirstWith waters
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