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Light household duties evermore inwrought
With placid fancies of one trusting heart
That lives but in her smile, and turns
From Life's cold seeming, and the busy mart,
With tenderness, that ever homeward yearns
To be refreshed where one pure altar burns.
Shut out from hence, the mockery of life—
Thus liveth she content, the meek, fond, trusting wife.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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The tender violet bent in smiles
To elves that sported nigh,
Tossing the drops of fragrant dew
To scent the evening sky.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere for either man or woman.

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

Yes, this is Life; and everywhere we meet,
Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

White-winged angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life,
And they offer to his lips
All that cup of mingled strife.

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