FEMALES*

FEMALES*The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.The mother hen doth scratch for her chicks,And scratch for herself beside;The mother cow doth nurse her calf,Yet fares as well as her other halfIn the pasture free and wide.The female bird doth soar in air;The female fish doth swim;The fleet-foot mare upon the courseDoth hold her own with the flying horse—Yea and she beateth him!One female in the world we findTelling a different tale.It is the female of our race,Who holds a parasitic placeDependent on the male.Not so, saith she, ye slander me!No parasite am I.I earn my living as a wife;My children take my very life;Why should I share in human strife,To plant and build and buy?The human race holds highest placeIn all the world so wide,Yet these inferior females wive,And raise their little ones alive,And feed themselves beside.The race is higher than the sex,Though sex be fair and good;A Human Creature is your state,And to be human is more greatThan even womanhood!The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.

The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.The mother hen doth scratch for her chicks,And scratch for herself beside;The mother cow doth nurse her calf,Yet fares as well as her other halfIn the pasture free and wide.The female bird doth soar in air;The female fish doth swim;The fleet-foot mare upon the courseDoth hold her own with the flying horse—Yea and she beateth him!One female in the world we findTelling a different tale.It is the female of our race,Who holds a parasitic placeDependent on the male.Not so, saith she, ye slander me!No parasite am I.I earn my living as a wife;My children take my very life;Why should I share in human strife,To plant and build and buy?The human race holds highest placeIn all the world so wide,Yet these inferior females wive,And raise their little ones alive,And feed themselves beside.The race is higher than the sex,Though sex be fair and good;A Human Creature is your state,And to be human is more greatThan even womanhood!The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.

The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.The mother hen doth scratch for her chicks,And scratch for herself beside;The mother cow doth nurse her calf,Yet fares as well as her other halfIn the pasture free and wide.The female bird doth soar in air;The female fish doth swim;The fleet-foot mare upon the courseDoth hold her own with the flying horse—Yea and she beateth him!One female in the world we findTelling a different tale.It is the female of our race,Who holds a parasitic placeDependent on the male.Not so, saith she, ye slander me!No parasite am I.I earn my living as a wife;My children take my very life;Why should I share in human strife,To plant and build and buy?The human race holds highest placeIn all the world so wide,Yet these inferior females wive,And raise their little ones alive,And feed themselves beside.The race is higher than the sex,Though sex be fair and good;A Human Creature is your state,And to be human is more greatThan even womanhood!The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.

The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.

The female fox she is a fox;

The female whale a whale;

The female eagle holds her place

As representative of race

As truly as the male.

The mother hen doth scratch for her chicks,And scratch for herself beside;The mother cow doth nurse her calf,Yet fares as well as her other halfIn the pasture free and wide.

The mother hen doth scratch for her chicks,

And scratch for herself beside;

The mother cow doth nurse her calf,

Yet fares as well as her other half

In the pasture free and wide.

The female bird doth soar in air;The female fish doth swim;The fleet-foot mare upon the courseDoth hold her own with the flying horse—Yea and she beateth him!

The female bird doth soar in air;

The female fish doth swim;

The fleet-foot mare upon the course

Doth hold her own with the flying horse—

Yea and she beateth him!

One female in the world we findTelling a different tale.It is the female of our race,Who holds a parasitic placeDependent on the male.

One female in the world we find

Telling a different tale.

It is the female of our race,

Who holds a parasitic place

Dependent on the male.

Not so, saith she, ye slander me!No parasite am I.I earn my living as a wife;My children take my very life;Why should I share in human strife,To plant and build and buy?

Not so, saith she, ye slander me!

No parasite am I.

I earn my living as a wife;

My children take my very life;

Why should I share in human strife,

To plant and build and buy?

The human race holds highest placeIn all the world so wide,Yet these inferior females wive,And raise their little ones alive,And feed themselves beside.

The human race holds highest place

In all the world so wide,

Yet these inferior females wive,

And raise their little ones alive,

And feed themselves beside.

The race is higher than the sex,Though sex be fair and good;A Human Creature is your state,And to be human is more greatThan even womanhood!

The race is higher than the sex,

Though sex be fair and good;

A Human Creature is your state,

And to be human is more great

Than even womanhood!

The female fox she is a fox;The female whale a whale;The female eagle holds her placeAs representative of raceAs truly as the male.

The female fox she is a fox;

The female whale a whale;

The female eagle holds her place

As representative of race

As truly as the male.


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