And soul, too—men confuse things—who can tell

Which is the soul?”

She answer’d absently:

“In truth they do confuse things! only wise,

As owls that blink at light!—so blind—nor see

What day dawns with a wife’s enfranchisement;

Ambitious, but forgetting that the meek,

Inherit heaven, or that the oppressor dwarfs

His own surroundings; that if pride stoop not,

Then must the soul; that earthly lords must bend,