My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's / Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, But Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book

by Marietta Holley

Such feelin’s you must smotheh;

Your restless hands fold up, or gripe

Your waist into a span,

And spend your strength in looking out

To hail the coming man.

Chorus.—Press onward, do not feah, sistehs, &c.

Oh, do not be discouraged, when

You find your hopes brought down;

And when you meet unwilling men,

Heed not their gloomy frown,