The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-06
4 MAnRrED CoQUErrE.

Sit still, say, and dispense with her0ics!
hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.
Nor toys 70 be used Is your mood. may Be.
viii not let 60 of your hands, nor leave you,
Dared ever 80 treat t you bsiore' believe you,
For you have dealt with only boys TIL today.
You women lay stress on your fine perception,
Your intuitions are pfated about;
You claim an occult sort Of conception
OF matters which men must reason out
So then, Of course, when You ask me Kinoly
ITO call again soon" you read my heart
cannot believe yOu were acting blfndly;
You saw my passion for you from the start.
You are one of those women who charm with
The clay you are made q i magnet ore.
And am the steel-yet, there's no denying
You led me to loving You more and more
You are tanning = fame that may burn too
Oft easily iindlsd, but hard to put out:
am not . man to Be played with lightly.
To come ct Q gesture and go at pout.
brute. You cali me-a creature inhuman-
You say insult you, and bid me CO.
And you? Oh, you are sanity woman,
With thoughts a. pure - the drifted snow.
Who think they are living exemplary lives.
They break no commandments and do all their
AZ Christian women and spotless wives.
But with dropping of lids and lifting Of faces,
And barring Of shoulders and well timed signs,
And the devil knows what other subtle graces,
You are mental wantons, who sin with the
You lure love to wake, but yet bid it keep under.
And then you are full of an outraged wonder
When we get to wanting you, body and soul
why, look at yourself! You were no stranger
To the fact that my heart was already on FIRE.
When you asked me TO call you knew my danger,
Yet here you are, dressed in the gown admire;
For half of the evil on earth 10 invented
By vain pretty women with nothing to do
But TO keep themselves manicured, powdered
And seek for sensations amusing and new.
But when I play at love at lady's command
always am certain to win one game:
So there-there-therel will leave my brand
On the lip. that are free not to cry .'sh.me.
You hate met Quite likelyl It does not sur
Brute iorcss' confess it; bu. still you were
And one thing il certain---you cannot despise me
For having been played with, controlled and
dismissed.
And the next time you see that . man IL IT
BY the beauty and grace. that are not for him.
Keep out Of deep waters although you can
swim.
For when he is caught in the whirlpool Of pas
sion,
Where many bold swimmers are seen 10 drown,
A man viii reach out and In desperate fashion
He drags whoever 10 nearest him down.
Though the strings of his heart may be wrenched
and riven
BY maiden coquette who has led him along,
She can be pardoned, excused and forgiven,
Z For innocence blindfolded walks into wrong.
But she who has willingly worn the letter
That Cupid FORCES at Hymen's command
Well. she II the woman who ought to know
better,
She needs no mercy ct any mans hand.
In the game Of hearts, though woman b win
ner,
The odds are ever against her, you know.
The world IL ready to call her sinner,
And man is ready to make her so.
Shame is likely, and sorrow 10 certain,
And the man has the best of It, end as 1t may.
So now, my lady, well drop the curtain,
And put out the lights. We are through with
our play.
Ella Wheeler Wiicox.