And ignorance beneath its darkling brand,

these we strove and still must strive, although

Women are free at last in all the land.

The serving squaw, the peasant, toil-embrowned,

The household drudge, no honor and no fee—

For these we now see women world-renowned,

In art and science, work of all degree.

She whom world progress had left far behind

Now has the secret of full life divined,—

Her largest service gladly to bestow;