XLIV.

Thus learn we that in woman rendered free

Is raised the rank of all humanity;

The despot is the fullfruit of the slave;—

To form the freeman, equable and brave,

Habit of freedom must spontaneous come

As life itself, and from the selfsame womb;

Life, liberty, and love,—lien undefiled,—

The freeborn mother’s heirloom to her freeborn child.