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THE LOST SEX by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT, STILL ANOTHER WOMAN FALSE
Last Line: ONE WOMAN TRUE, JUST ONE.
Subject(s): FIDELITY; MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; WOMEN; FAITHFULNESS; CONSTANCY; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS;
What, still another woman false,
Another honest man betrayed:
Then Heaven is made for only men,
And Hell for women made.

Now, with that false deceitful sex,
Henceforth I have for ever done;
Only one Judas lived a man,
But every woman's one.

Send down, O Lord, ten thousand Christs,
Each one as great as Christ Thy Son;
Not for all men, but just to make
One woman true, just one.



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