Of tangible substance and of turbulent thought—

No thin, gray shadow of the life of man!

Your love, perchance, may set a crown on it;

But I may crown myself in other ways—

(As you have done, who are in one flesh with me).

I have no quarrel with you; but, henceforth

This you must know: The world is mine as yours—

The pulsing strength and passion and hurt of it:

The work I set my hand to, woman’s work,

Because I set my hand to it.