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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3891, 18 June 1881, Page 1

Select Poetry.

\ " Yea, God hia made nitfa:womaiv - j And I am content to be : Just whathemeant, sot reaoking oat : .• '[\ ' ; r For other things, since I[»., vu i< [;f!T ,,v Who knows me beat and loves me most bat; I ... ....,.; ordered this for me. ..'„,' .V ', / j I ,'f A woman, to live my life put i '' in quiet, womanly ways, ! . ' ■ Hearing the far off battle, \ Seeing at through'a haze The crowding, struggling \ world of men, light , through their busy days. ! "lam not strong nor valiant," I woald not join the fight Or JAftje with orowdt ia the highway* I '„■ To^»ll T «,Yg»nn»nUwhJr*; ma I *nt.mffi*m WWI, M ban I f claim Wfr right. ' ] " The right of a rose to bloom In its own tweet aeparate way, , With none to question the perfumed piDk, And Done to utter a nay, If it reaches a root or points a thorn, as even a rose tree may. , " The right of the ladY-birch to gtow, ' To grow as the LofHihalL please,., , , Bynere'rasturdyoMkrebdked,'; l |l ' ' Denied riot sun nor breeze, 'For all its pliant sleriderness, kin to the , stronger trees. , " The right to a life of my ownNot merely a casual bit Of somebody else's life, flung out ' That, taking hold of it, I may'stand as a'cypher does after a numeral writ. 'i i.-i' ! 1 "The right to gather and glean | What food I need and can Which man hs>s, heaped for man, Taking with free hands freely, and after an ordered plan. •., ,,, " The right! ah, best arid sweetesit • To stMd all undismayed;;j; : :;^&^X Whenerer sorrow or want or s'u " ■'■■'■' '" 'Call for • wohiiri's aW!" '■,:\ ■ = i vosri. With none to cavil or question, by never a look gainsaid. ■.■<<■(>:■..■'. ;; » .vi "I do not ask for a ballot; , . Though very life were at, stake, < - I would beg for the nobler,justice ; .: That men for manhood's sake ; '.'^ ■. Should give,ungjiudgiogly, nor wijthold till I must fight and take..'l'^.,-.?^ r .:^ " The fleet foot and the feeble foot Both seek the eelf-same goal;' : ' The weakest soldier's W»me is writ' On the great army-roll, ' And God, who made mint* body strong, made the woman's soul." • . i ( " '7IYXY' — SPBAy,,O6topqi;'::