Till she to shape her own career be free;—
Free from all uninvited touch of man,
Free mistress of her person’s sacred plan;
Free human soul; the brood that she shall bear,
The first—the truly free, to breathe our air;
From woman slave can come but menial race,
The mother free confers her freedom and her grace.
XLI.
By her the progress of our future kind,
Their stalwart body and their spacious mind;