DAWN
Out of the scabbard of the night
By God’s hand drawn,
Flashes his shining sword of light,
And lo—the dawn!
Charlotte P. S. Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman was born at Hartford, Connecticut, July 3, 1860. She began public work in 1890, lecturing on ethics, economics and sociology; identifying herself with the labor question and the advance of women.
She has written about a dozen books, her best works being Woman and Economics (1898) and Human Work (1904). Her volume of verse, In This Our World (1898), hurls many a shaft of ironic wit. Beneath the whimsical humor of “A Conservative” and the better known “Similar Cases” (unfortunately too long to quote) there is a sub-acid satire not easily forgotten.