Is maidenhood?—By Eve and Mary, false!—
The mother lives the model of her sex,
And not the maid. And she who seeks to lower
The mother’s rank that she may lift her own,
Yields less than she bids others yield to her.”
“But she serves God,” I said, “and others men.”
“How serves one God in doing this?” he ask’d.
“God made our nature. Who make way with it,
Make way with manhood, turn to suicide.
He made the world where works His Providence