The Cords of Hymen — 221
A poetical feminine, who found the cords of Hymen not so silky as she expected, gives vent to feelings in the following regretful stanzas. The penultimate line is peculiarly comprehensive and expansive:—
“When I was young I used to earn
My living without trouble;
Had clothes and pocket-money too,
And hours of pleasure double.
“I never dream’d of such a fate,
When I a-lass was courted—
Wife, mother, nurse, seamstress, cook, housekeeper,
chambermaid, laundress, dairy-woman, and scrub generally,
doing the work of six,
For the sake of being supported.”