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Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). rn The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

She Who Is to Come
(From “In This Our World”)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(America’s most brilliant woman poet and critic; born 1860)

A WOMAN—in so far as she beholdeth

Her one Beloved’s face;

A mother—with a great heart that enfoldeth

The children of the Race;

A body, free and strong, with that high beauty

That comes of perfect use, is built thereof;

A mind where Reason ruleth over Duty,

And Justice reigns with Love;

A self-poised, royal soul, brave, wise, and tender,

No longer blind and dumb;

A Human Being, of an unknown splendor,

Is she who is to come!