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William Ernest Henley - As Like The Woman As You Can
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`As like the Woman as you can` -
(Thus the New Adam was beguiled) -
`So shall you touch the Perfect Man` -
(God in the Garden heard and smiled).
`Your father perished with his day:
`A clot of passions fierce and blind,
`He fought, he hacked, he crushed his way:
`Your muscles, Child, must be of mind.

`The Brute that lurks and irks within,
`How, till you have him gagged and bound,
`Escape the foullest form of Sin?`
(God in the Garden laughed and frowned).
`So vile, so rank, the bestial mood
`In which the race is bid to be,
`It wrecks the Rarer Womanhood:
`Live, therefore, you, for Purity!

`Take for your mate no gallant croup,
`No girl all grace and natural will:
`To work her mission were to stoop,
`Maybe to lapse, from Well to Ill.
`Choose one of whom your grosser make` -
(God in the Garden laughed outright) -
`The true refining touch may take,
`Till both attain to Life`s last height.

`There, equal, purged of soul and sense.
`Beneficent, high-thinking, just,
`Beyond the appeal of Violence,
`Incapable of common Lust,
`In mental Marriage still prevail` -
(God in the Garden hid His face) -
`Till you achieve that Female-Male
`In Which shall culminate the race.`
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