XLVII.

But she was lucky, and luck's all. Your Queens

Are generally prosperous in reigning—

Which puzzles us to know what Fortune means:—

But to continue—though her years were waning,

Her climacteric teased her like her teens;

And though her dignity brooked no complaining,

So much did Juan's setting off distress her,

She could not find at first a fit successor.

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