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anti, fair and apparently tender, Sat with her feet on her own brass fender; Safe as a human life can be From want and suffering, so safe was she, Safe by money and social position, By love and learning and sound tradition; Never a stroke of work had she done, Never a dollar earned or won, Her children in school, and her husband gone To his office, she sat by her fire alone With time to read the election news, And found it exactly met her views. She was glad the women had been defeated, That was the way they ought to be treated; Glad that women who toiled all day Were not to be equals in any way; Glad that women she passed in the street Couldn't in any way compete; Glad, since wisdom and wealth and power Guarded her children every hour,