But workers who labour for "bread and cheese,"
And not as a change from mere lady-like ease,
Regard all such amateur, sham, busy-bees
As needing, not praise, but forgiving.
What if your work-dabbling, now quite the rage,
Cut down the genuine workwoman's wage,
Or pinch the poor ill-paid school teacher?
"Every woman should work all she's able"?
Maybe you need a new species of fable,
A sager than copy-book preacher.