[Editor: This poem by William Blocksidge (also known as William Baylebridge) was published in Songs o’ the South (1908).]
“Power is Mine!”
Women are weak, and men are mad.
Beware! Beware!
Love has pleasure when Lust is sad.
Take care!
No peace is where
Lust has his lair!
Women are strong, and men are calm.
Be thou! And now!
No one ever may do thee harm
If thou
Upon thy brow
But wear this vow.
Source:
William Blocksidge, Songs o’ the South, London: Watts, 1908, p. 2
Editor’s notes:
thee = (archaic) you
thou = (archaic) you
thy = (archaic) your
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