It learns from her the needful art of life;
Unconscious teacher, she, yet all she knows
Of dark experience to her infant flows,
And brands him, ere he rest upon her knee,
Offshoot of slavish race, not scion of the free.
XLIII.
To either sex the bondage and the pain,
They seek to live a freeman’s life in vain;
For man or woman can but act the part,
When ’tis not freeborn blood that fills the heart: