And yet the British “Damme” ’s rather Attic,
Your continental oaths are but incontinent,
And turn on things which no aristocratic
Spirit would name, and therefore even I won’t anent
This subject quote; as it would be schismatic
In politesse, and have a sound affronting in’t;—
But “Damme” ’s quite ethereal, though too daring—
Platonic blasphemy—the soul of swearing.