Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 2014 |
| AUTHOR: | Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
| QUOTATION: | A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Queen sent word to a Throne: ‘Daughter am I in my mother’s house, But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open, As the gates are mine to close, And I set my house in order,’ Said our Lady of the Snows. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The poem is about the Canadian preferential tariff of 1897. |
| SUBJECTS: | Women |