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WOMEN AND WOMEN by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY

First Line: ALL WOMEN CRY TO MEN; FOR SOME CRY 'GIVE!'
Last Line: AND FROM THEIR DUST THE FLOWER OF MANHOOD SPRINGS.
Subject(s): MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS;
ALL women cry to men; for some cry "Give!"
By day and night: a ravenous life they live,
Devouring gift and giver; then they die
In giving birth to wailing misery;

And some cry "Be—be men!": though few arise
To do the bidding of their wistful eyes,
Death to those virgins comes with Gabriel's wings,
And from their dust the flower of manhood springs.



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