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First Line: Dire is the violence of ocean waves
Last Line: Of woes unnumbered, and their deadly foe.
Subject(s): Men; Women


DIRE is the violence of ocean waves,
And dire the blast of rivers and hot fire,
And dire is want, and dire are countless things;
But nothing is so dire and dread as woman.
No painting could express her dreadfulness,
No words describe it. If a god made woman,
And fashioned her, he was for men the artist
Of woes unnumbered, and their deadly foe.





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