PATHLESS JOURNEY
Disgust with my inaction e’er increases
For work I ne’er had love or high esteem.
Oh if I could destroy and tear to pieces
Each obligation, aim, or wasted dream.
To start anew . . . ’twould be a vain endeavor
When disappointment curses all I do . .
And when a hand, no sooner raised, falls ever
Back in my lap . . . ere it can work anew . . .
And this I know . . . Were I born a woman instead . .
I would expose my cheeks to the world’s sleet . . .
With a brazen smile and skirts raised o’er my head
I would go and sell my body in the street . . .
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1923 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The author died in 1987, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. |