| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Thought |
| | | James Kenneth Stephen (1859–92) |
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| IF all the harm that women have done | |
| Were put in a bundle and rolled into one, | |
| Earth would not hold it, | |
| The sky could not enfold it, | |
| It could not be lighted nor warmed by the sun; | 5 |
| Such masses of evil | |
| Would puzzle the devil | |
| And keep him in fuel while Time’s wheels run. | |
| But if all the harm that ’s been done by men | |
| Were doubled and doubled and doubled again, | 10 |
| And melted and fused into vapor and then | |
| Were squared and raised to the power of ten, | |
| There would n’t be nearly enough, not near, | |
| To keep a small girl for the tenth of a year. | |
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