And as for Mind—ye angels! in fair creation's plan
'Twas given to his victim, and left him half a man!
The modern Clytemnestra no dagger needs to use;
She slays her Agamemnon within your legal pews,
Since judges now are willing to sunder marriage ties,
And juries are so truculent when blushing beauty lies.
Or if she be a Helen, and Paris suits her taste,
She hastes without compunction to lay her honor waste.
"Society" allows her to have "a special friend,"
And a husband is so handy her good name to defend!