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What highest prize hath woman won In science or in art? What mightiest work by woman done, Boasts city, field, or mart? “She hath no Raphael,” Painting saith; “No Newton,” Learning cries; Show us her Steam-ship! her Macbeth, Her thought-won victories! Hail boastful man! though worthy are Thy deeds when thou art true, Things worthier still and holier far, Our sister yet will do; For this the worth of woman shows, On every peopled shore, That still as man in wisdom grows, He honours her the more. Oh! not for wealth, or fame, or pow’r, Hath man’s weak angel striven, But silent as the growing flower, To make of earth a heav’n! And in her garden of the sun, Heaven’s brightest rose shall bloom; For woman’s best is unbegun! Her advent yet to come.
What highest prize hath woman won In science or in art? What mightiest work by woman done, Boasts city, field, or mart? “She hath no Raphael,” Painting saith; “No Newton,” Learning cries; Show us her Steam-ship! her Macbeth, Her thought-won victories! Hail boastful man! though worthy are Thy deeds when thou art true, Things worthier still and holier far, Our sister yet will do; For this the worth of woman shows, On every peopled shore, That still as man in wisdom grows, He honours her the more. Oh! not for wealth, or fame, or pow’r, Hath man’s weak angel striven, But silent as the growing flower, To make of earth a heav’n! And in her garden of the sun, Heaven’s brightest rose shall bloom; For woman’s best is unbegun! Her advent yet to come.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Ebenezer Elliot (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 680 · printed citation: Ebenezer Elliot · subject: WOMAN
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