LXIV.

My Juan, whom I left in deadly peril

Amongst live poets and blue ladies, passed

With some small profit through that field so sterile,

Being tired in time—and, neither least nor last,

Left it before he had been treated very ill;

And henceforth found himself more gaily classed

Amongst the higher spirits of the day,

The Sun's true son, no vapour, but a ray.

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