Till like with him in human right she stands,
Her will an equal power of rule commands;
Her voice, in council and in senate heard,
To stern debate brings harmonising word;
In mutual stress each sex the other cheers,
Since one are made their hopes and one their fears;
“Self-reverent each, and reverencing each,”—
The theme that truer man and freer woman teach.
XL.
For but a slave himself must ever be,