WOMAN'S RIGHTS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 24, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 46.

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

DIFFERENT WAYS OF OBTAINING THEM.

SHE sought her "rights," Robbed by some cruel chance of life's delights, With a dissatisfied and restless soul, With a half logic she counted whole; Earnest, no doubt, and honest, not unsexed, But hungering and querulous and vexed, With starving instincts in a fruitless frame, And with an itching for the sort of fame Which comes from the mere printing of a name. She clamored for her "rights," showed solemn craft, And men, Brute men, They only laughed.

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She did not seek her "rights." She dreamed not of some path to mannish heights, But followed nature's way, and deemed it good, And bloomed from flower to fruit of womanhood. She loved the "tyrant," bore her noble part In life with him, and thought with all her heart She had her rights. She held that something men and women meant To be unlike, but each a supplement Unto the other, 'twas her gentle whim He was not more to her than she to him. And little children gathered at her knee, And men, Brute men, Would die for such as she.

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