Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
A Womans Execution
By Edward King (18481896)(Paris, 1871.)
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The people’s daughter,
No nerves unstrung,
Going to slaughter!
You’ll love us better,—
Make us amends;
We’ve burst your fetter!
(Women are snarling):
Give me your beams,
Liberty’s darling!
Christ’s mother bore it.
That badge? No shame:
Glad that I wore it!”
Limbs like a Venus):
Robes are displaced:
“Soldiers, please screen us!
That is my lover:
Stood all the brunt;—
Now—the fight’s over.
Gave out together:
Droll! to be dead
In this bright weather!
Have married in June!
This the wall? Right!
Vive la Commune!”