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Poet Analysis

First Line: WITH GOD ABOVE - BENEATH - BESIDE
Last Line: THE PEOPLE WE ARE MEANT TO BE!
Subject(s): WOMEN'S RIGHTS; FEMINISM;

With God Above-Beneath-Beside-
Without-Within-and Everywhere;
Rising with the resistless tide
Of life, and Sure of Getting There.

Patient with Nature's long delay,
Proud of our conscious upward swing;
Not sorry for a single day,
And Not Afraid of Anything!



With Motherhood at last awake-
With Power to Do and Light to See-
Women may now begin to Make
The People we are Meant to Be!




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