| | 1 | Author: | Le Gallienne, Richard | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Woman Behind the Man"  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Thus is a man created — to do all his work for some woman,
Do it for her and her only, only to lay at her feet;
Yet in his talk to pretend, shyly and fiercely maintain it,
That all is for love of the work — toil just for love of the toil.
Yet was there never a battle, but side by side with the soldiers,
Stern like the serried corn, fluttered the souls of the women,
As in and out through the corn go the blue-eyed shapes of the flowers;
Yet was there never a strength but a woman's softness upheld it,
Never a Thebes of our dreams but it rose to the music of woman —
Iron and stone it might stand, but the women had breathed on the building;
Yea, no man shall make or unmake, ere some woman hath made him a
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