WOMAN'S CAREER.
She was 11 fair tfirl graduate, enrobed in spotless wliiu , Aiid uu her youthful features sliono a look of holy li^ht. She bent with grace her dainty head to if( cive tho ribbon blue, Whenco hung 1 tho silver medal, adjudged to be hor due. I watched lier face with rapture aa she raised to heaven her eyes, And moved her lips in pruyer as her fingers clasped the prize. For I know to educate nhe had pledged her coming days, To unclasp poor woman's fetters, and free her from man's wuys. Time passed. Our pathways parted, but ever aud anou My thoughts they would stray towards her, aud I'd speculated upon What my graduate was doing, if athwart the scroll of fume, Among uuselfish workors, had been written high her name. At last I chanced to meet hor, but hor books were pushed aside, While around a dainty garment she sewed the laoo with pride. And at her feet her buby, dimpled, happy, crowing youth, Upon that silver medal wan nutting his first tooth.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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177WOMAN'S CAREER. Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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