"If not, fill up the measure of her will;
Yes, in some measure, satisfy her so,
That we shall stop her exclamation!"
And woman, serener than Constance, may whisper back,—
"Wherefore, since law is perfect wrong,
Why should the law forbid my tongue to cry?"
TEN YEARS:
AN APPENDIX.
"The only respect in which all men continue for ever to be equal, is that of the equal right which every man has to defend himself; but this involves a source of much inequality in respect to the things which any one may have a right to defend."—Adam Ferguson.