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MRS. LOUISE BRUN 101
For noble women as for forceful men,—
This wreath we weave for her pure memory.
But what she thus had early taught herself,
She taught to others. When upon the stage
: She stood, depicting woman’s painful conflict
With rudeness, violence, and wild desire,
Then,—though she wielded but a woman’s weapons,
Her silent dignity, her subtle smile,
Her light derision, all-subduing laughter, —
A spirit-dawn gleamed from their flashing play,
To usher in a day of victory.
ON pa ee
She barriers raised around the woman weak
(Down-trodden in a half-built social order),
She stood forth here so many an evening-hour
x And talked to thousands of a woman’s worth.
Although her call was not fully to free
All that a woman’s heart may hope and dream,
She shielded it secure in all its beauty.
k This conflict made her reticent, severe; —
7 But sometimes in a song her spirit could
: Send forth glad tidings, messages of freedom,
Her large free soul revealing. Ten we heard
Such longing after full, unbroken peace,
Our thoughts were captive held by sad foreboding. —
*T is now come true! — The crape of mourning droops
About her name, the tolling bell is still.
Her final summons gather us once more
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