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"Then men shall love their wives again, Allowing for the frailer kind, Content to keep the heart's Amen, Content to own the turns of mind Beyond their ken.

"And wives shall in their lords be blest, Their higher sense of right perceiving (When possible) with love their test; Exalting, solacing, believing All for the test.

"And for the best shall all things be, If God once more will shine around, And lift my husband from the ground, And teach him to lift me."

New faith inspired the first of wives, She smiles, and drooping hope revives; She scorns a hundred years of woe% And binds her hair, because the breezes blow.