She could bake, she could brew from morning to night;
She had even been known to get up a petition:
But now she must write for “The Woman’s Edition.”
She felt that she must; her sisters all did it,
Would she fall behind? The saints all forbid it!
If the rest of her life should be spent in contrition,
She felt she must write for the Woman’s Edition.
She did it, she wrote it, now read it and ponder;
She treated a subject a little beyond her,
But that was much better than total omission