Yet 't is in vain such sallies to permit,
They cannot quench young feelings fresh and early:
I "scotched not killed" the Scotchman in my blood,
And love the land of "mountain and of flood."[537]
XX.
Don Juan, who was real, or ideal,—
For both are much the same, since what men think
Exists when the once thinkers are less real
Than what they thought, for Mind can never sink,
And 'gainst the Body makes a strong appeal;