For men to exercise their brains, on platforms and in colleges;
Let woman’s proud and honour’d place be still the fireside,
And still man’s household deities, his mother and his bride,
In this our nineteenth century,
The favour’d child of Time.
Frank E. Smedley.
Gathered Leaves. London, Virtue Brothers, 1865.
(This parody originally appeared in Mirth and Metre.)
The Fine Old English Gentleman of the Present Time.