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35

Or nobly write
Your name like Dwight,
    On Heaven's own page.

Our sex I'm told
Are formed to hold
    A lower place,
Our powers of mind
Being far behind
    Your lordly race.

I've understood
That "household-good"
    Was our employment,
To cook and mend,
And babies tend,
    Our chief enjoyment.

'Tis very well,
I shan't rebel,
    And when I grow,