The Ballad of Lost Causes
(About 465 years after Villon.)
Tell me in what spot remote
Do the antis dwell to-day,
Those who did not want to vote,
Feared their sex’s prompt decay?
Where are those who used to say:
“Home alone is woman’s sphere;
Only those should vote who slay”?
Where the snows of yester-year?
Where are those who used to quote
Nietzsche’s words in dread array?
Where the ancient crones who wrote:
“Women rule through Beauty’s sway”?
And those lovers, where are they,
Who could hold no woman dear
If she had the ballot? Nay!
Where the snows of yester-year?
Prince, inquire no more, I pray,
Whither antis disappear.
Suffrage won; they melt away,
Like the snows of yester-year.