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Show GOD MADE A WOMAN By Madison Caweln. Then full of hate, with eyes of st 10 God fashioned woman from a bone; .First came the heart to curse and bless, And filled with love and wantonness, All hell's delight, all heaven's distress. Then to himself God smiling said, rtfa "The heart's the least; far more the head." y And o'er the heart he moulded fair I The bright destruction of her hair, i And therein set for a man a snare. In front God painted fresh her face, ' All innocent, divine of grace; i But underneath the angel mien He hid a devil, dark, unclean, A monster thing whose gaze was green. Into the face he set the eyes, Full of beguilement and surmise. Of prayer and passion, make believe, And tears and laughter to deceive The soul of man God meant to grieve. The nose and mouth he fashioned next; The nose precise; the mouth perplexed With virtue and the quenchless thirst For fruit forbidden; blest and cursed With longings for the best and worst. Then loud God laughed and said again: "Without the body all were vain!" And underneath the head he set The neck and breasts, like roses met; And arms; all portions of the net. The torso then and limbs of snow, He made and lixed them fair below; And in her feet and in her breast He breathed the spirit of unrest, And vanity of soul distressed. ' "Behold!" God said, "my masterpiece! j Through whom the world shall know increase, .Mid man will give me thanks, I know, And praise my work; and, heart aglow, Accept my gift and all his woe." From the New York Sun. |
