But we follow the laws which some Great Cause, alike for us all, laid out.

'We eat and we drink to live; we shun the things that poison and kill,
And we settle the problems of sex and birth by the law of the female will,
For never was one of us known by a male, or made to mother its kind,
Unless there went from our minds consent (or from what we call the mind).

'But you, the highest of all she-things, you gorge yourselves at your
feasts,
And you smoke and drink in a way we think would lower the standard of
beasts;
For a ring, a roof and a rag, you are bought by your males, to have and to
hold,
And you mate and you breed without nature's need, while your hearts and
your bodies are cold.

'All unwanted your offspring come, or you slay them before they are born;
And now the wild she-things of the earth have spoken and told their scorn.
We have no mind and we have no souls, maybe as you think--And still,
Never one of us ate or drank the things that poison and kill,
And never was one of us known by a male except by our wish and will.'



PROTEST



To sit in silence when we should protest
Makes cowards out of men. The human race