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

WIMMEN’S SPEAH;

Or whisperin’s of nature to

BETSEY BOBBET.

Last night as I meandered out

To meditate apart,

Secluded in my parasol,

Deep subjects shook my heart.

The earth, the skies, the prattling brooks,

All thundered in my ear,

“It is matrimony! it is matrimony