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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Separated Women</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE Separated Women<br>Go lying through the land,<br>For they have plenty dresses,<br>And money, too, in hand;<br>They married brutes and drunkards<br>And blackguards “frightful low”,<br>But why are they so eager<br>For all the world to know?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shamed and ill-used woman<br>Who really longs to die,<br>She slaves at home in silence<br>And hides her poor black eye!<br>She lives a life of terror<br>Eased off at times in woe—<br>But why is she so frightened<br>That any one might know?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Separated Woman<br>She rushes to the court,<br>Sad, shabby and pathetic,<br>Or flaunting or distraught;<br>The real wronged wife would rather<br>Lose both eyes and her hair—<br>She swears a lie to save him<br>When he is taken there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Separated Woman<br>She mostly goes the same,<br>Bag-woman, sham-nurse, “pretty”,<br>Or on her husband’s name;<br>The real loafed-on woman,<br>With courage almost grim,<br>“Goes out” and takes in washing<br>To keep the kids—and him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Separated Woman—<br>I knew her course so well:<br>“The Stage”, then first-class barmaid,<br>Then third-class bar—and hell:<br>And “hell” means all things vicious<br>That prey upon the town<br>(She wishes her poor husband<br>Had sometimes knocked her down).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Masseur and manicurist,<br>Or anything by chance,<br>They vilify their husbands—<br>And draw the maintenance.<br>Sham artists, “music teachers”—<br>Oh! they are flinty nuts!<br>Their friends are man-shaped crawlers<br>And lower than the dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The separated “Monsters”<br>Are missing from the tale—<br>They seem to have cleared out—or,<br>Perhaps they are in gaol.<br>The separated husband<br>Is heard of here and there,<br>A mild and decent citizen<br>And mostly bowed with care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Separated Women,<br>When upset in the track,<br>Are often very eager<br>To take the “Monster” back.<br>They’ve moved all hell to crush him<br>And, startled, find too late<br>The Monster’s grown content with<br>The separated state.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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Go lying through the land,
For they have plenty dresses,
And money, too, in hand;
They married brutes and drunkards
And blackguards “frightful low”,
But why are they so eager
For all the world to know?

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