Unhealed the scars of man’s distempered greed,
The wounds of blind injustice still they bleed;
Recurrent suffering lets her not forget
The aimless payments of a dismal debt,—
Survival from dim age of man’s abuse
Of functions immature, profaned by savage use.
XXII.
Her girlhood’s helpless years through cycles long
Had been a martyrdom of sexual wrong,
For little strength or choice might child oppose