<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Damætas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In law an infant, and in years a boy,<br>In mind a slave to every vicious joy;<br>From every sense of shame and virtue wean'd;<br>In lies an adept, in deceit a fiend;<br>Versed in hypocrisy, while yet a child;<br>Fickle as wind, of inclinations wild;<br>Women his dupe, his heedless friend a tool;<br>Old in the world, though scarcely broke from school;<br>Damætas ran through all the maze of sin,<br>And found the goal when others just begin:<br>Even still conflicting passions shake his soul,<br>And bid him drain the dregs of pleasure's bowl;<br>But, pall'd with vice, he breaks his former chain,<br>And what was once his bliss appears his bane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396064" data-title="Damætas de Byron" data-description="In law an infant, and in years a boy, In mind a slave to every vicious joy; From every sense of shame and virtue wean'd; In lies an adept, in deceit a fiend; Versed in hypocrisy, while yet a child; Fickle as wind, of inclinations wild; Women his d..."></div> </div> </div>

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