And yet 't is very puzzling on the brink

Of what is called Eternity to stare,

And know no more of what is here, than there;—

XXI.

Don Juan grew a very polished Russian—

How we won't mention, why we need not say:

Few youthful minds can stand the strong concussion

Of any slight temptation in their way;

But his just now were spread as is a cushion

Smoothed for a Monarch's seat of honour: gay