The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-06-30
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Alike.
IT'S worse for woman than for man
TO feel this difference in herself from all
Her kind, for woman's life must ever be
Conventional, governed in all things by
The stern propricties that hedge her round.
No spontaneity allowed; free growth
Out-croppng into full development,
Checked only as 1t runs to waste, but n
Repressed and artificial life. instead;
Clipped rnthlessly in every part by the
lneXorable shears that fit her for
,So,iety's Procrustean bed.
There is no joy so rich, so full, as the
Soul feels IN consciousness Of its own self
Reliant strength. with power to noursh
and
Develop to their pcrfcctness, all gifts,
However rare. Chained faculties, reprcsscd
Activities but dwal humanity.
Nature and God "Educe." Cry to all
Possessing them: Throw off the CALLING
chains
OF vice and ignorance unleash, for good
The struggling energies" while human
need
Most 'teously implores. $50 let it BEL
That man and woman may grow UP intimc
To primal perfectness of place and aim and
joy
Soul hath no sex. 1t lifts to God the
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OF joy and grief, of hope and fear. Of love
And hate, of courage and despair, alike,
In the duality that makes mankind;
And lie, the Infinite, when it before
Him stands, asks not if the freed spirit at
His bar, dwelt, while on Earth. in male,
Or female form. Face, features, figure,
nought
TO Him. The deeds Of trail humanity,
He looks as the actual man. Flesh. frame,
Scx-nothing; act and motive soul. That
feels
The doom He speaks, and each, alike, re-
The sentence from His lips "According to
The deeds done in the body" not the deeds
The body did.
1t takes diversity
To make world and diverse harmonies
Of thought, with strong repellancies to
make
The jewellers in it. In woman, as in man,
Crops out, from her God-given soul, oft
times
Strong individuality, and from
Such cause, the future has for her, some
change,
We know not what, but, at the last, it will
BE as it ought. Plants longtime trodden
down
Or struggling into life beneath huge rocks,
Abnormal are, at first, in shape As well
As coloring. On all transition states
Strange circumstances wait, where'er we
look,-
In mental, mora, natural world, the same
Fixed law. Unwise, who judges at such
time.
Out of the morning mists strange shapes
arise,
As dawning day peeps o'erth' aspiring hill,
Tn advancing sun presents them Us they
are,
Men as trees walking, the imperfect sight,
When more complete, brings to thcirprop-
or size.
Not lust conclusions from right data first
Deduces, always, the enquirng mind.
Light breaks from darkness; error heralds
] truth.
Though winding, tortuous and blind,
content
To sea, CHI and toll, with frequent pausing to
Compare familiar landmarks, at the last
We find the path Of harmony and truth,
And walk therein, discordance reconcicd.
Not quarreling with destiny, woman
Should know her need, and boldly dare
demand
Her uomdn's place-not mdns-power to
Improve, to full extent, all given facul-,
To put to usury the talents God
Bestows on her, each one to make subserve
Her highest place, her true position, as
..eiiner, elevator OF her kind;
Exemplar, moral teacher ofthe world =
The choicest ornament, her purity;
Her greatest weie lit of whelming influence,
Her moral worth; the eloqience that
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From lip, and eye, and face, the cloqucnce
OF truth. that more than words, persuadcs,
awes and
Compcls. making pale falsehood stand
abashed,
And skulking wrong,or open vice, rebuked,
Shrink covering back beneath her steady
glance.
True woman is not loud of speech, and
bold
OF glance, and quick to say all that is in
Her mind; nor forward to advise. nor seeks
Authority, blows not the trumpet that
Blarcs forth her cunning VISIONS depth ;
boasts not
Her judgments keen superiority.
She seizes not high places; If bestowed,
She occupies them with shrinking grace
That rather seeks to hide itself. than raunt
The eminence, where circumstances have
COMBINED to set her forth to public gaze.
,Tis not her choice that heads the caravan
Crossing the desert sands, buflets the storms
On oceans waves, or leads her country''
, bold
DELIVERIES. Duty is must to her.
She needs its mandates, and, Obedient
braves
, Reproach, SCOTS, scorn and contumely
worse
To spirit sensitive and delicae
Than danger frightfulest to life and limb
Yet, Drawing blame, or shrinking praise
receives
Her richest guerdon Of reward from love
, Fame makes no wOman's 10Y; Wreatle,