Delilah

And Delilah triumphed over the human weakness in woman, and so became an example beyond all example of the woman who breaks the lust in her own body for the sake of her homeland and her people!!

It is a great victory that Delilah wins for woman in every age: she stands before that overwhelming beauty in Samson's body, before that immortal divine splendor which no man's body on earth has ever known — and she stands tall, victorious, magnificent.

Here is a human being, a man, the most magnificent that men can be: a body like the roots of the ancient oak, in the beauty of the gods; a dream out of the dreams of the jungles; in his arms the finest that ever was in the arms of any man the earth has known; in his eyes, paradises no eye has dreamed of; on his lips, brooks of crumbled musk...

How wondrous are these black locks of his hair, falling over his brow like a forest of perfumes! How splendid his lashes!

And this same man, this good mountain, is a fearful enemy, who humbles the dignity of the homeland, defiles its women and its virgins, burns the crops, and tramples the grapes of the vineyards...

And the citizen in Delilah triumphs over Delilah the female: she takes the bull by the horns and shears with her own hand those wondrous locks — and she was not ashamed of her deed, nor did conscience reproach her.