Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-02-28
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1st.
Nobody knows how want to grow
How count the days az they come and GO,
Wishing ard wishing that time had wings:
For I've made up my mind to do great things
When I'm a woman!
won't be dull, and faded, and gray,
And drudge in the household from day TO day,
Like some Of the women know;
But mean to grow fresher every year
Aud III be so smart that the people here
Shall ask how manage 50.
When I'm a woman mean to show
What wonderful things a woman can know;
III know French and German to write and speak,
And Ill read all those funny old books In Greek,
Besides what there are in Latin.
I'll learn all about what they call ''high art :"
III have the Philosophy quite by heart,
And Trigonometry, too.
won't take minute to work or play
To show what woman can do
writer IN he, and III engage
To write NOT single stupid page;
Bnt funny short stories for girls and bows
Aud songs to be sung with good deal OF noise.
And marvellous fairy tales.
lnow all the children will buy nv books
And TT write some, too for the older folks
For the newspapers first, I guess;
Letters, perhaps, from the sea,
70 tell the strange things that bave happened TO mi
And how the queer people dress.
4th.
Such famous housrkeeper will he,
That all the ladies will call to see
How ever make such beautiful bread!
For all my household shall be well-fcd
When I'm woman.
Oh! the sweetest jellies and cream IN make,
Aud OF daintiest puddings, and pies, and cake.
will always have great store.
My htchen-tloor shall be snowy white,
And everything else shall he Just right
That yuu find inside my door
III he lecturer, travelling about,
when it isn't too stormy for men to get out
III show them their sphere and the woman's too,
And tell the young girls what they ought to do
When they are women.
I'll et people see why the world goes wrong
Aud make them all hope that it wont be long
Till women can have their way.
Freedom to lecture to vote, to preach,
To do everything now beyond our reach,
We surely will have some day.
9Th
III be milliner, wrapped in a cloud
Vi acos and ribbons, and sought by crowd
ofbeautiful ladies in velvet and pearls,
Who want exquisite hats for their dear little girls
In style Just fresh from Paris.
Such ravishing bonnets as III invent
Fave never been seen on this continent,
And, for customers to prepare them
III have dozens Of girls sewing night and day,
For fear the new fashion will grow passe
Before folks get chance to wear Them
7th.
When I'm woman. n teacher III be-
Bat hope shant have much company;
Oh! If committees could only know
How glad we are when they rise to 60.
When I'm woman
expect that teachers will have Praat pay
And they won't work more than three hours a day.
And vacations will be 20 long;
Ana I'll caution my scholars to take great care
To study no more than their health will bear
For that would be very wrong
Ali.
When we arc women, You then will zee
The useful things that women can be:
Aud though each of us in our own way tries,
We can all be happy, and good and WISE
When are women.
Bnt perhaps 1t is true that time has wings,
And if we would do all these wonderful things.
We must lose not single day.
If our plans should go wrong wen have courage
still,
For we think somehow, where we've a will
We shall always find a way
ChristiIn Union.