The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-04
PAW Friday APRIL 1878
Written for the True Northerner.
Woman and the Moon.

I've oft been sorely puzzled and perplexed,
When thinking of the Sun and Moon, and 50 on
To know what principle, when they were sexed,
Those who first fixed their gender, chose to go on;
| will not say that I've been vexcd
When this same thing I've chanced thought to throw on'
But it has given my reasoning power some pother,
Wbv we should He the one, and She the other.
The Moon-aud woman there may be, own,
Points of resemblance more than or two;
Twenty, for ought know might soon be shown,
I'd shake them if I'd nothing else to do
But as have I'll leave the theme alone -
And yet on second thoughts I'll give few
Lest carping critics, who apt to chatter,
Should say never thought about the matter.
Imprims-then, they both shine most at night
The one on earth, the other in the sky,
I may say both reflect borrowed light
But this, perhaps, the ladies would deny:
And they, own, have undoubted right
To know what charms they borrow, or they buy,
Besides, whenever anything is bought
And paid for, tits the owners as it ought
But, passing this discussion theme
Too delicate to dwell on, must say
That whether both dispense a borrowd CLEAN,
Or not, there's much resemblance in the ray
Which shines from such tho beautiful the beam,
1t is not steady, like the light of day
But an uncertain, fascinating splendor,-
A little coosh, too, when man grows tender.
Another point of likeness, to my view,
perhaps, I'm not accurate beholder);
Is this-when Ladies and Moons are new,
They're both little coy; but when grown older,
Then don't salute you, and then bid adeu,
Both in a breath but, grown little bolder,
Are more disposed to give for time to admire
And in great hurry to retire.
Let's try again.-The Moon, it has been said
Has strange influence folks half cracked.
And have either heard, or somewhere read,
OF "Lunatic and Lover all compact;
Which seems if 'twere thought by some ill-bred
Tbo sure such wrecbes should be straghtway racked)
That It's not till mans reasoning powers are gone,
Woman can claim his noddle as her own
But this point of resemblance, tho it might
Strike some very striking, just mention,-
should be sorry to be impoc,
And still more sorry TO excite dssension
Among the iove-sick swans, who, out of spite
Would swear had some sinister intention
Their heads leave to those who choose to win EN-
'Ts affair of mine what brains are in EN-
Wel-to proceed Il find | must make haste
And not on every point of semblance pore
Or shall both my time and paper waste,
And try my readers patience which is more,
For, when joke is not quite to taste
It's opt to make one feel little sore -
Besides, it might be thought it was my aim,
To prove the Moon and Woman are the same!
l therefore shall with brevity pass over
Various resembances between the twain
How both, when skies are clear smile on a lover
And leave him in the urch in clouds and rain
AS well many theme might discover
In either's wise set, or wax or waue
But as might be prolx, forbear,
Besides must their difference now compare
! The Moon and Woman differ then in this
The first is true to Nature, and its laws:
1t never leaves its sphere,-nor does amiss
1t apes artfu wes, asks no applause
In all its changes, still unchanged it is
In loveliness and beauty, from this cause
Since first created it has cheated no man;
I fear cannot say all this for woman
Again-the Moon sheds her impartial beams,
On rich and poor with just the same delight
Youth, beauty uglness and age all seem
The same to her-to each her smiles are bright
She sometimes may withdraw her gentle CLEAN,
But not capriciously, still less in SPITE
doubt much if these qualities are common
With her to whom give the name of Woman