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At break of day the College Portress came	A
She brought us Academic silks in hue	B
The lilac with a silken hood to each	C
And zoned with gold and now when these were on	D
And we as rich as moths from dusk cocoons	E
She curtseying her obeisance let us know	F
The Princess Ida waited out we paced	G
I first and following through the porch that sang	H
All round with laurel issued in a court	I
Compact of lucid marbles bossed with lengths	J
Of classic frieze with ample awnings gay	K
Betwixt the pillars and with great urns of flowers	L
The Muses and the Graces grouped in threes	M
Enringed a billowing fountain in the midst	N
And here and there on lattice edges lay	K
Or book or lute but hastily we past	O
And up a flight of stairs into the hall	P
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There at a board by tome and paper sat	Q
With two tame leopards couched beside her throne	R
All beauty compassed in a female form	S
The Princess liker to the inhabitant	T
Of some clear planet close upon the Sun	U
Than our man's earth such eyes were in her head	V
And so much grace and power breathing down	W
From over her arched brows with every turn	X
Lived through her to the tips of her long hands	Y
And to her feet She rose her height and said	V
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'We give you welcome not without redound	Z
Of use and glory to yourselves ye come	A2
The first fruits of the stranger aftertime	A2
And that full voice which circles round the grave	B2
Will rank you nobly mingled up with me	A2
What are the ladies of your land so tall '	-
'We of the court' said Cyril 'From the court'	Z
She answered 'then ye know the Prince ' and he	A2
'The climax of his age as though there were	C2
One rose in all the world your Highness that	Z
He worships your ideal ' she replied	Z
'We scarcely thought in our own hall to hear	D2
This barren verbiage current among men	E2
Light coin the tinsel clink of compliment	Z
Your flight from out your bookless wilds would seem	A2
As arguing love of knowledge and of power	C2
Your language proves you still the child Indeed	Z
We dream not of him when we set our hand	Z
To this great work we purposed with ourself	F2
Never to wed You likewise will do well	G2
Ladies in entering here to cast and fling	H2
The tricks which make us toys of men that so	F
Some future time if so indeed you will	I2
You may with those self styled our lords ally	J2
Your fortunes justlier balanced scale with scale '	-
	-
At those high words we conscious of ourselves	K2
Perused the matting then an officer	C2
Rose up and read the statutes such as these	M
Not for three years to correspond with home	A2
Not for three years to cross the liberties	M
Not for three years to speak with any men	E2
And many more which hastily subscribed	Z
We entered on the boards and 'Now ' she cried	Z
'Ye are green wood see ye warp not Look our hall	P
Our statues not of those that men desire	C2
Sleek Odalisques or oracles of mode	Z
Nor stunted squaws of West or East but she	A2
That taught the Sabine how to rule and she	A2
The foundress of the Babylonian wall	P
The Carian Artemisia strong in war	L2
The Rhodope that built the pyramid	Z
Clelia Cornelia with the Palmyrene	E2
That fought Aurelian and the Roman brows	M2
Of Agrippina Dwell with these and lose	N2
Convention since to look on noble forms	O2
Makes noble through the sensuous organism	A2
That which is higher O lift your natures up	P2
Embrace our aims work out your freedom Girls	Q2
Knowledge is now no more a fountain sealed	Z
Drink deep until the habits of the slave	B2
The sins of emptiness gossip and spite	Z
And slander die Better not be at all	P
Than not be noble Leave us you may go	F
Today the Lady Psyche will harangue	H
The fresh arrivals of the week before	L2
For they press in from all the provinces	R2
And fill the hive '	-
She spoke and bowing waved	Z
Dismissal back again we crost the court	Z
To Lady Psyche's as we entered in	E2
There sat along the forms like morning doves	S2
That sun their milky bosoms on the thatch	T2
A patient range of pupils she herself	F2
Erect behind a desk of satin wood	Z
A quick brunette well moulded falcon eyed	Z
And on the hither side or so she looked	Z
Of twenty summers At her left a child	Z
In shining draperies headed like a star	U2
Her maiden babe a double April old	Z
Agla a slept We sat the Lady glanced	Z
Then Florian but not livelier than the dame	A2
That whispered 'Asses' ears' among the sedge	V2
'My sister ' 'Comely too by all that's fair '	-
Said Cyril 'Oh hush hush ' and she began	E2
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'This world was once a fluid haze of light	Z
Till toward the centre set the starry tides	W2
And eddied into suns that wheeling cast	Z
The planets then the monster then the man	E2
Tattooed or woaded winter clad in skins	X2
Raw from the prime and crushing down his mate	Z
As yet we find in barbarous isles and here	D2
Among the lowest '	-
Thereupon she took	Y2
A bird's eye view of all the ungracious past	Z
Glanced at the legendary Amazon	E2
As emblematic of a nobler age	Z2
Appraised the Lycian custom spoke of those	A3
That lay at wine with Lar and Lucumo	A2
Ran down the Persian Grecian Roman lines	B3
Of empire and the woman's state in each	C
How far from just till warming with her theme	A2
She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique	Y2
And little footed China touched on Mahomet	Z
With much contempt and came to chivalry	A2
When some respect however slight was paid	Z
To woman superstition all awry	J2
However then commenced the dawn a beam	A2
Had slanted forward falling in a land	Z
Of promise fruit would follow Deep indeed	Z
Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared	Z
To leap the rotten pales of prejudice	C3
Disyoke their necks from custom and assert	Z
None lordlier than themselves but that which made	Z
Woman and man She had founded they must build	Z
Here might they learn whatever men were taught	Z
Let them not fear some said their heads were less	D3
Some men's were small not they the least of men	E2
For often fineness compensated size	E3
Besides the brain was like the hand and grew	B
With using thence the man's if more was more	L2
He took advantage of his strength to be	A2
First in the field some ages had been lost	Z
But woman ripened earlier and her life	F3
Was longer and albeit their glorious names	G3
Were fewer scattered stars yet since in truth	H3
The highest is the measure of the man	E2
And not the Kaffir Hottentot Malay	K
Nor those horn handed breakers of the glebe	A2
But Homer Plato Verulam even so	F
With woman and in arts of government	Z
Elizabeth and others arts of war	L2
The peasant Joan and others arts of grace	I3
Sappho and others vied with any man	E2
And last not least she who had left her place	I3
And bowed her state to them that they might grow	F
To use and power on this Oasis lapt	Z
In the arms of leisure sacred from the blight	Z
Of ancient influence and scorn	E2
At last	Z
She rose upon a wind of prophecy	A2
Dilating on the future 'everywhere	F
Who heads in council two beside the hearth	J3
Two in the tangled business of the world	Z
Two in the liberal offices of life	F3
Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss	C3
Of science and the secrets of the mind	Z
Musician painter sculptor critic more	F
And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth	K3
Should bear a double growth of those rare souls	L3
Poets whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world '	-
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She ended here and beckoned us the rest	Z
Parted and glowing full faced welcome she	A2
Began to address us and was moving on	E2
In gratulation till as when a boat	Z
Tacks and the slackened sail flaps all her voice	M3
Faltering and fluttering in her throat she cried	Z
'My brother ' 'Well my sister ' 'O ' she said	Z
'What do you here and in this dress and these	M
Why who are these a wolf within the fold	Z
A pack of wolves the Lord be gracious to me	A2
A plot a plot a plot to	Z

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