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FIRST MUSICIAN'S SONG, FR. LAODICE AND DANAE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will sing of the women who have borne rule
Last Line: She has shewn men the power of their source again.
Subject(s): Women


I WILL sing of the women who have borne rule,
The severe, the swift, the beautiful;
I will praise their loftiness of mind
That made them too wise to be true or kind;
I will sing of their calm injustice loved
For the pride it fed and the power it proved.

Once in Egypt a girl was queen;
Ashamed that her womanhood should be seen,
She wore a beard, she called herself king;
She was uneasy with governing;
She believed a king was greater than she,
So she found a king and his mastery.

In Smyrna sits a queen to-night
Who does not shine by another's light;
She has laid her husband on time's dust-heap
But for that she holds not her title cheap;
New radiance comes on woman by her,
New force in woman is seen to stir.

She has taken the land and the sea from men;
She has shewn men the power of their source again.





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