A Sequel to Don Juan — page 162: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 1o3 LXX ViIL. Thine eyes can fill a dungeon’s gloom with light, Thy voice can echoes in the desart raise ; Thy smile can make a charnel house seem bright, Thy love can turn men’s curses into praise ; Thy look can warm the blood-chilled anchorite, Thy charms can animate the poet’s lays ; Thy touch can thrill the only chords that linger When Death upon the brow has placed his finger. LX XIX. I am a great admirer of the sex, And always praise, while other bards abuse it ; And if its strand be covered with the wrecks Of hearts, let man not hastily accuse it ; Else would we put some queries might perplex His notions as to how he’s wont to use it, And show—e’en from the very first beginning— That women are more sinned against than sinning. LXXX. If there be wickedness in woman, more Lurks in the heart of man ;—and ’tis to me A matter which I can’t enough deplore, That the male sex, in its hypocrisy, | Should lay all ev'l at the other’s door, Pretending that itself would have been free From sin, but for Dame Eve’s infirmities :— The fable is detailed in Genesis. COMmiclbooks.conn