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188 | Uncollected and Other Poems Stronger our League must grow, We can win Justice so, Union is power! For the right pay for us, We stand as one; For the short day for us, We stand as one; Loyal and brave and strong, Helping the world along, For end to every wrong We stand as one! (Life and Labor, 2 [May 1912], 153) Womanhood We fear, while old walls break and old bonds sever, Lest we lose Life’s most precious things forever— Heart jewels, valued all the world above. We fear the loss of Womanhood—no other; With Man’s dear temple, Home; his idol, Mother; His dream, hope, comfort, spur and blessing—Love. We need not fear. While our life shall endure, Woman with man remaineth, steadfast, sure; And Womanhood means Mother, Home and Love. (Delineator, 85 [December 1914], 5) Wouldn’t You Think? Wouldn’t you think, if it is right to seize A man, and hide him in a pile of stone, Rob him of sunshine, starlight, grass and trees, Freedom and friendship; bottle him, alone, An Amputated Man—as where one sees A finger in formaldehyde, to show The horrible result of some disease— Wouldn’t you think—if ’tis right, you know— Society, to take such vengeance strong, Must blame and fear, in him some awful wrong? Wouldn’t you think, if any little child, Born a pink baby, wholly innocent, May grow up dissolute, fierce, tempered, wild Of mischievous behavior and intent; If, out of infancy so undefiled, May grow a criminal, of sins so great As warrants cruelty or vengeance piled; Wouldn’t you think, if crime so hurts the State, ...

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