Don Juan 02-199
Canto the Second

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Alas! the love of women! it is known
     To be a lovely and a fearful thing;
For all of theirs upon that die is thrown,
     And if 't is lost, life hath no more to bring
To them but mockeries of the past alone,
     And their revenge is as the tiger's spring,
Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong