Page:Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 16 1826.pdf/6



"Women act their parts When they do make their ordered houses know them. Men must be busy out of doors, must stir The city;—yea, make the great world aware That they are in it; for the mastery Of which they race and wrestle."—

! whose image on thy tomb, With shield and crested head, Sleeps proudly in the purple gloom By the stain'd window shed; The records of thy name and race Have faded from the stone, Yet through a cloud of years I trace What thou hast been and done.