All honor and long life to Mary Gray!
THE DANCING TASSEL
The female preacher both smiled and exhorted,
While around her fair cheek and back to her ear,
Her long, gay tassel danced and cavorted,
And the more men looked the less they could hear,
For lo, the dancing tassel.
And the wonderful thing, ’twas a Quaker tassel,
On a Quaker hat, on a Friend’s high head,
Who in pulpit reigned like a queen in a castle,