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Woman will bless and brighten every place she enters, and she will enter every place on this round earth.

Frances E. Willard.

O Woman, what is the thing you do, and what is the thing you cry?

Is your house not warm and enclosed from harm, that you thrust the curtain by?

And have we not toiled to build for you a peace from the winds outside,

That you seek to know how the battles go and ride where the fighters ride?

You have taken my spindle away from me, you have taken away my loom;

You bid me sit in the dust of it, at peace without cloth or broom;

You have shut me still with a sleepy will, with nor evil nor good to do,

While our house the World that we keep for God should be garnished and swept anew.

The evil things that have waxed and grown while I sat with my white hands still,

They have meshed our world till they twined and curled through my verywindow sill;

Shall I sit and smile at my ease the while that my house is wrongly kept?

It is mine to see that the house of me is straightened and cleansed and swept!

Margaret Widdemer.