XXXVIII.
The crass injustice early man displayed,
His own crude infancy of brain betrayed;
His riper judgment scorns the childish use,
And cries to all his bygone freaks a truce;
Enactments that long blemished legal page
Shall fade as figments of a foolish age,
Till saner years have every bond erased
Which selfish law of man on life of woman placed.