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White Jasmine. — ‘ Forbear to wound’ 1 Do not 
give pain. 
I cannot better introduce the following stanzas, than by a quotation 
from Lady Blessington: — ‘ Alas! women look more to effect than 
cause; they all feel, but how few can reason! and men, whose duty, 
whose interest it is to reflect on this peculiarity, seldom give them¬ 
selves the trouble to think on the subject until it is too late. I be¬ 
lieve it is Fontenelle who says, that women have a fibre more in the 
heart, and a cell less in the brain, than men ; — it is this fibre that 
responds to the nerve where agonies are born; so that all that wo¬ 
men want in reasoning powers, they make up for in feeling.’ — "Will 
men remember this, and forbear to wound us ? 
They say that the heart which to woman is given, 
Than man’s sterner organ has one fibre more; 
From the hour of her birth, thus predestined by 
Heaven 
More acutely to feel — greater ills to endure: 
Yet the balance of power, Nature’s law to maintain, 
Is awarded, proud man, in one cell more of brain! 
