The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-06-08
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WOMAN.

There are who lightly spesk, wiih seonliai siil'es'
Drvonan,s faith, oi Nomans artiul wiles
Who eau her false in heart, and weak in mind,
Tbs slave ofiashion, and 10 reason blind.
she msy be such among the gildsd bowers,
Where changing folliss seem to waste the hours
But hear her from the giddy world siar,
And place her lonely like tho evening star,
and with as bright, as pure, IS calm beam,
Der milder viriues viii seFonsly CLEAN;
60 place her By thc couch Of rnle disease,
And bid her give the feyer.sh pilses erso--
Say, will she not the tesl- unmurmering boar.
To soothe The anguished brow with tender care
To trim the midnight lamp snd from her eye,
Though din with watching bid sott slumber fly
Wiih lightly whispered voice, and noiseess tread,
Glide like an angel round the sick nan's bed
With tireless patience watch the speaking eye,
And all unasked his slightest want SUPPLY
II is not hers 50 guide The storm Of war,
Te rule the state, or thunder at the bar
Il is mol hers to cap,iyate the heart
With potent eloQuence, resistless ART,
To sit with men in legislative hall,
TO govern realms, to marx their rise and full;
These things are not for her 'Tis womAn's care
Alone to rear the shoots that flonIish there
TO list the lisping voice, with Joy refined,
To Watch the first eh.olding Of the mind,
The springing dawn Of intellectual day,
The brighter beam OF reasons perfect ray;
10 wipe the starting tear from ciudhoods eye,
Tosoothe the little woes, and baIms apply.
To drink OF science iount, that she may store
His opening n,ind with all her gathered lorei
Toguard his morals wiki unceasng care,
And bend. tt,r him Tho Srtott,nt Emo, l.,
Then give him, in his full and perfect worth,
To serve the land that smiled upon his birth.
3 such woman Is and shall proud man torbear,
The converse of the mind with her to share1
No! she with him shall knowledge pages scan,
And be tie partner, not the toy otman
When smitvith angry fortunes adverse gale,
Zen his stern spirit seems ut length to quail
When all his hopes are wfeckd, his health had swl
Andstreugers elaimthe land he calls his own;
When friends who tatterd meath the summers SKI
With brow estranged, his altered fortunes fly.
Then woman it is thine, with changeless heart
In all his wretchedness to bear part;
10 quit the scenes thy smiles could once il!ume,
And sink with him to poverty and gloon;
To soothe his sorrow, calm ms aching head,
And hang IN speechiess fondness DER his bed.
His woes, his wants, his sutierings TO share;
Thine altered lot without one plaint to bear;
10 lock thy silent sorrow in thy breast,
And smile as thou vert wont in days more blest;
Ills steps to follow to earths farthest verge,
Der ICY mount or oceans toalnng surge;
With hope of better days tEv heart to cheer,
And with thy smiles, to shed the first fond tear
such changeless faith is woman s-constaut sill
Through each reversing scene of good or i'll.
When man is crush'd by storms that DER him roll,
Then rises woman's timid, shE4kng soul;
Pain, peril, want, she iearless!y will bear,
To dash from man the cup of dark dispaiy;
And only asks for all her tireiess zeal,
fo share his fate whate'er he feels to feel
To breathe in his fond arms her latest breath,
And murmur out the loved ones name in death
Cadiz May 1852