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Poems with Fables in Prose

By Frederic Herbert Trench

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13

On the State

Of Man, from Woman's knees,
No great state shall remain,
Until the woman sees
And helps with equal brain
And as radiant energy
To build the walls of Rome;
And to make the laws of Rome
Just, as her loves at home.
All else is frailty.