If Women Knew Their Power

If women only knew their power

     I don’t know what this world would be;

But it would not be just the same

     Old place it now is, seems to me.

There’s be more rooms in every house,

     More space for window plant and flower;

There’d be more closet room as well,

If women only knew their power.

If women only knew their power

     I’d tremble for all future time;

There’s be more men out splitting wood,

     And fewer poets writing rhyme.

Each cosy den where husbands smoke

     Would be transformed to cupid’s bower;

There would be no pipes in the house,

     If women only knew their power.

If women only knew their power

     Where would the size of head dress end?

They’d tie their ankles with a “hob”

     So they could neither walk nor bend.

Man ne’er could wander from his door

     To spend a happy social hour;

Ah me! Man wouldn’t count for much

     If women only knew their power.

Oct. 20, ‘10