The Osceola times., 1882-07-22
THE GLORY OF WOMAN.
]. 0. HOLLAND.

J. o. HOLLAND.
More human more divine than wc
In truth half human, halfdiyine-
Is woman when good STAR agree
To temper with their beams benign
The hour of her nativity.
The iairest flower the green earth bears
Bright with the dew and light OF heaven
Is, Of the double life she wears,
The type, 10 grace and glory gwen
BY soll ard SUI in equsl shsfcs.
True sister OF the Son OF Man;
True sister Of the Son OF God:
What marvel that she Lends the van
Oi those who in the path he trod
stu bear the cross and wear the ban?
If God be in the sky and sea
And live in light and ride the storm,
Then God 10 God, although He be
Enshrined within a wOmans form;
And claims glad reverence from me.
So, as worship Him in Christ,
And in the Forms of Earth and Air,
worship Him imparadised
Aud throned within her bosom fair
Whom vanity hats not enticed.
o womsn-motherl woman-wife!-
The sweetest names that language knows'
Thy breast with holy motives rife,
With holest affections & ows,
Thou queen, thou angel of my life!
Noble and line in his degree
Is the best man my heart receives
And this my hearts supremest plea
For him; he feels, acts, lives, believes
And seems, and is the likest thee
Omen o brothers Well know
That with her nature in our souls
Is born the elemental woe
The brutal impulse that controls
And drives, or drsgs, the godlike low.
Ambition appetite and pride
ia md bral ha haa IL Of MOI
These plat the thorns, and pierce the side
OF him who in our souls again,
Is spit upon, and crucihed-
The greed for gain the thirst for power,
The lust thai blackens while It burns;
All these the whtest souls deilour,
And one or all Of these by turns,
Rob man of his divinest dowerl
Yet man, who shivers like straw
Before Temptations lightest breeze,
Assumes the master-gives the law
10 her who, on her bended knees,
Resists the black-winged thunderiaw
To him who deems her weak and vain
And boasts his own exceeding might,
She clngs through darkest fortune iain;
still loyal though the rufian smiie;
still true, though crime his hands dis.ain
And is this weakness? Is II not
The strength Of God that loves and bears
Though lie be sighted or forgot
In damning crimes, or driving cares
And closest clings in darkest lot?
Not many friends my life has made,
Few have loved, and few are they
Who in my hand their hearts have laid
And these were women. | am gray,
But never have been betrayed.
These words-this tribute-for the sake
OF truth TO God and womankind!
These-that my heart may cease to ache
With love and gratitude confined,
And burning from my lips TO break
These-to that sisterhood of grace
That numbers in its sacred list
My mother, risen to her place
My wife, but yester morning kissed,
And folded in Loves last embrace.
This tribute of love profound
As ever moved the heart of man.,
To those to whom my life is bound
To her in whom my life began,
And her whose love my life hath crowned
Immortal love Thou still hast wings
To in me TO those radiant fields,
Where Music waits with trembling strings,
And Verse her happy numbers Yields,
And all the soul within me sings
So from the lovely Pagan dream
| call no more the Tunetul Nine;
For Woman is my Muse Supreme
And she with fire and flight divine,
shall light and lead me to my theme.