Wednesday, August 05, 2009
WOMAN'S QUESTION (by Lena Lathrop)
Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by the hand above?
A woman's heart, and a woman's life--
And a woman's wonderful love.
Do you know you have asked for this priceless thing
As a child might ask for a toy?
Demanding what others have died to win
With the reckless dash of a boy.
You have written my lesson of duty out,
Manlike, you have questioned me.
Now stand at the bars of my woman's soul
Until I shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirt be whole;
I require your heart be as true as God's stars
And as pure as His heaven your soul.
You require a cook for your mutton and beef,
I require a far greater thing;
A seamstress you're wanting for socks and shirts---
I look for a man and a king.
A king for the beautiful realm called Home,
And a man that his Maker, God,
Shall look upon as he did on the first
And say: "It is very good."
I am fair and young, but the rose may fade
From this soft young cheeck one day;
Will you love me then, 'mid the falling leaves
As you did 'mong the blossoms of May?
Is your heart an ocean so strong and true,
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.
I require all things that are grand and true,
All things that a man should be;
If you give this all, I would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.
If you cannot be this, a laundress and cook
You can hire and little to pay;
But a woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to be won that way.
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Got this from Joshua Harris' I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Which is a really good book, by the way. I'm just wow-ed by it. And he was only 21 when he wrote it! That's just incredible to me. Haha. I mean, the freshmen guys are 21 years old now. Not that they're immature or anything (quite the contrary in fact - some of them are refreshingly mature) but the book just contains so much wisdom about attitudes towards our interpersonal relationships - with family, friends and of course those of the opposite sex - that I can't really imagine any of the guys writing something like that.
Rose-coloured glasses are never made in bifocals
Because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
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