The sun., 1916-08-20
WOMAN.
A New Song Of Solomon 70 CeIsArste
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light. VIVA wadna follow him, ant
also Bill. his adminicle7 And who doe,
not envy his consistent and persisten
thirst. although he does not tell us VII,
pays for the liquor?
AZ for the ras and bone and hank o.
hair he IL chasing. I hae my doots tina,
she is, as voltaire remarked about tn,
prophet nabakkuk, capable Of any.
thing" Why not? She makes "T. r.
go to and fro on the earth and walk ur
and down in It following q blind trai
and In perils often, but not without
cheer. To him she Is the most relevant
and irrelevant thing in New York. AZ
at his hour she is the whole thing in II
j ken her. She IL a Woman! Ha,
ha! h Is a Woman. and. while |
am trying to write this. there are 1900.
600 men chasing her. and here's hoping
all OF them may find her. because she
Is the strongest moral force on earth
and the helm Of all things human.
She Is as sunshine on a holiday. Balm
o Gilead. strength In weakness. She is
as q full moon In harvest a perpetu-
ally recurring comfort and consolation
a. cold water to q thirsty soul as the
shadow Of a great rock in a weary land
and as a Scotch highball to ct. p"
h II q rod and a staf: a friend
that sticks closer thar a brother; the
eternal magnet that draws men by a
single hair. The words Of her mouth
are sweeter than honey and smoother
than butter In a lordly dish she Is a
heaven born apparition sent to be an
earth worn ornament.
She Ia all things to all men. She Ia
Lots wife, Miriam with her harp, Ruth
In the cornhelI. Rebecca at the well,
Hagar In the desert. Mary at the Sep
ulchre. She Is Cleopatra, Helen, Boa
r-ficea, Lucretia Borgla. Florence Night
ingaie. Mother Bickerdyke. Grace OAR
ling. Jenny Geddes. Annie Laurie. Imo-
gen. Portia, Bonnie Jean. Victoria Queen
and Empress. the Red Virgin. and, as
she Is the Mother of all living. hers
are the sacred dead.
She IL heaven and he'll incarnated.
Her love is infinite. her hate Is i'm
mortal. her instinct passes the wisdom
OF men. her common sense the wit OF
sages. her counsel ls as the counsel OF
princes.
She Is fair as the moon. clear as the
sun and terrible as an army with ban
ners. Thrones. dominions. princ,pali.
ties and Powers have bowed to tcr
sway she has crushed empires beneath
her feet. the %proudest o. the sons OF
men have craved life at her hands. For
her are wars. peace. fire and sword.
Tier re!gn Ii forever and ever: her
Kingdom Is without beginning OF days.
or end of nights she is the same YES
'terday. to-day and forever.
She suffers long and IL kind she
suffers briefly me Is cruel. She envies
not: she Is filed with Jealousy. She
raunts not herself. SHE powders her
nose. She IL not puned up she wears
corsets. She does not behave herself
unseemly she behaves herself unbecom-
ingly. She seeks no; her own: she
tights TO the death for that which is
hers. She thinks ~ evil she suspects
the circumspect. She ~rejolc.s not i'm
iniqu!,y she finds JUNCTION in scandal
She r%ejolces In the truth she is the
nigh priest.s. ~ evasion. She bears All
things. she believes all things. she hopes
all things. she never has cold feet.
She Is strenuous and Gila,ory. strong
ana weak. resolute and l-resolu.e. de-
and vacillatinC. earnest and
nippant. vigorous and debi.o. ardent and
colo, bold and fearful. vehement, and
mild. She is love and hatred, affection
and indifference. attachment and dis
like. passion and Ice. devotion and
esirangement. b~cnevolence and unkind-
ness charity and barbarity. Kindness
and malevolenc" She is loyalty and
fidelity and un~faithfulness. !.
and treason. obedience and
rebellion. constancy and INCONSISTENCY.
In the first blush OF motherhood she
Is the env!ed Of gods and all angels
she Is a thing Of divine beauty as she
ruddles to her breast her first born IN |
be a Christ or a criminal a Judas or a !
Justus; a casslus or "A Cesar: n Booth
mr. a Lincoln. To be a Moses or a
a David or n Goliath a
i'urns or IA B~onapartc n Cdgl.ostro or
Crichton a Shakespeare or n scena-
RIO writer: a reformer or a renegade
a man or a nanikin.
She walks h. faith and no, BY sight.
and her hand is the right hand OF fell
Nature made man when .h.
Was an apprentice. she made woman
"heh she was mistress OF her art. She
$ the last and best OF all created things.
all angels and all furies are drawn
n her Image. Her love IL stronger than
'eath. her Jealousy cruel az the grave
Ter hate needs no added bitterness, her
borrow Is sorrows crown. She brouph.
lin into the world. and by her came
'lso the Resurrection and the Life.
Fol- her does Apollo gid the morning
Cynthia hang her silver lamp DER
h" glacis Of heaven. "when chapman
lilies leave the street an drouthy
bors. nci'bors meet" For her star ds
'irius hxed m immutablc forever nj
ravens northern gate. and for her
Ices Bootes drive his hunting dog,
Iheld In their leash OF sidereaI fire
For her darlings who triumph In the
'att!es OF peace she weaves ~Garlanos.
hose OF Helios. For them she Ia all
miles and woman witchery. For her
eroes who go forth beneath the BAN
or war. and return to her. borne
n many a bloody shield. she is trans
A light hat never shone on
e a or land illumines her face with n
Tory glow that god or man or angel
ever knew. There lies hcr diadem q,
Motherhood. lie gave his life a ransom
or many, There he lies. "A purple tcs-
.ment OF blood red war. She hears
gain the turnult and the shouting as
that wild yell of Scotland foreyer,' ,
men the Greys charged down the sIopc ,
I Waterloo, a living thunderholt which ,
I'D the Little Cornor,I tb,, lat, .. ,