But Jealousy has fled: his
bars, his bolts,
His withered sentinel, duenna sage!
And all whereat the generous soul
revolts,
Which the stern dotard deemed he
could encage,
Have passed to darkness with the
vanished age.
Who late so free as Spanish girls
were seen
(Ere War uprose in his volcanic
rage),
With braided tresses bounding o’er
the green,
While on the gay dance shone Night’s lover-loving
Queen?
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