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236. I have no doubt that every noble woman will oppose
what Dante and Goethe believed about woman—the former
when he sang, ‘ELLA GUARDAVA SUSO, ED IO IN LEI,’
and the latter when he interpreted it, ‘the eternally femi-
nine draws us ALOFT”; for THIS is just what she believes of
the eternally masculine.
237. SEVEN APOPHTHEGMS FOR WOMEN
How the longest ennui flees, When a man comes to our
knees!
Age, alas! and science staid, Furnish even weak virtue aid.
Sombre garb and silence meet: Dress for every dame—dis-
creet.
Whom I thank when in my bliss? God!—and my good tai-
loress!
Young, a flower-decked cavern home; Old, a dragon thence
doth roam.
Noble title, leg that’s fine, Man as well: Oh, were HE mine!
Speech in brief and sense in mass—Slippery for the jenny-
ass!
237A. Woman has hitherto been treated by men like birds,
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