Poems of Progress by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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page 87 of 107 (81%)
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Divine the growth such seed and soil will bring.
For all is Me, and I am everything.' Thus having spoken to Himself aloud, His glorious face upon His breast He bowed, And sought repose behind a wall of cloud. Come forth, O God! though great Thy thought and good, In shaping woman for true Motherhood, Lord, speak again; she has not understood. The centuries pass: the cycles roll along - The earth is peopled with a mighty throng, Yet men are fighting and the world goes wrong. Lord, speak again, ere yet it be too late, Unloved, unwanted souls come through earth's gate: The unborn child is given a dower of hate. Thy world progresses in all ways save one. In Motherhood, for which it was begun, Lord, Lord, behold how little has been done! Children are spawned like fishes in the sand. With ignorance and crime they fill the land. Lord, speak again, till mothers understand. It is not all of Motherhood to know Conception pleasure or deliverance woe. Who plants the seed should help the shoot to grow. |
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