“How blest of fortune is your sex!
No chains of destiny can vex
Your strength, born only to be free;
And danger’s spell, and honor’s throne,—
Yea, earth and heaven, are yours alone.
But woman’s destiny is sealed
As man’s appendage to his life,
A bandage on his wounds in strife,
Forgotten when they once are healed.
She is the sacrifice, but he