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Womankind—"the cat-like nature,

False and fickle, vain and weak"—

What of this sad nomenclature

Suits my tongue, if I must speak?

Does the sex invite, repulse so,

Tempt, betray, by fits and starts?

So becalm but to convulse so,

Decking heads and breaking hearts?