<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420426" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Woman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, dwarfed and wronged, and stained with ill,<br>Behold! thou art a woman still!<br>And, by that sacred name and dear,<br>I bid thy better self appear.<br>Still, through thy foul disguise, I see<br>The rudimental purity,<br>That, spite of change and loss, makes good<br>Thy birthright-claim of womanhood;<br>An inward loathing, deep, intense;<br>A shame that is half innocence.<br>Cast off the grave-clothes of thy sin!<br>Rise from the dust thou liest in,<br>As Mary rose at Jesus' word,<br>Redeemed and white before the Lord!<br>Reclairn thy lost soul! In His name,<br>Rise up, and break thy bonds of shame.<br>Art weak? He 's strong. Art fearful? Hear<br>The world's O'ercomer: 'Be of cheer!'<br>What lip shall judge when He approves?<br>Who dare to scorn the child He loves?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420426" data-title="A Woman de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="Oh, dwarfed and wronged, and stained with ill, Behold! thou art a woman still! And, by that sacred name and dear, I bid thy better self appear. Still, through thy foul disguise, I see The rudimental purity, That, spite of change and loss, makes go..."></div> </div> </div>

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