Holding my hand across the world,—a sense

That reads, as only such can read, the mark

God sets on woman, signifying so

She should—shall peradventure—be divine;

Yet 'ware, the whole, how weakness mars the print

And makes confusion, leaves the thing men see,

—Not this man sees,—who from his soul, rewrites

The obliterated charter,—love and strength

Mending what 's marred. "So kneels a votarist,

Weeds some poor waste traditionary plot,