13. Inverted mercy and a slow-won grave.
“The female of the species is more deadly than the male.” Why?
For the sake of the protection of the young. Indian fighters had a special horror of falling into the hands of the squaws.
Hate and love are opposite sides of the same shield. In proportion as woman loves her children and the protectors of them she hates anybody and anything that menaces them.
14. Since Earth’s first mother scolded from a cave
A true picture of social origins.
17. To match the deadly venom brewed above
18. The lean, blue, blinding heart-fires of her love.
Note the witches’ cauldron that bubbles here and the fire that burns below it.
20. But thrice three seasons yet should swell the past, etc.