Are Women People? - A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller
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page 22 of 60 (36%)
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(The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her
husband.) I _In Time of War_ Help us. Your country needs you; Show that you love her, Give her your men to fight, Ay, even to fall; The fair, free land of your birth, Set nothing above her, Not husband nor son, She must come first of all. II _In Time of Peace_ What's this? You've wed an alien, Yet you ask for legislation To guard your nationality? We're shocked at your demand. A woman when she marries Takes her husband's name and nation: She should love her husband only. What's a woman's native land? |
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