“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Canto VI, st. 17.
Variant: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Source: Marmion (1808)
“O woman, born first to believe us;
Yea, also born first to forget;
Born first to betray and deceive us,
Yet first to repent and regret!
O first then in all that is human,
Lo! first where the Nazarene trod,
O woman! O beautiful woman!
Be then first in the kingdom of God!”
The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877), p. 52.
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