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The Wit of Women

by Kate Sanborn

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Epigraph

TO
G.W.B.
In Grateful Memory.

Proema

We are coming to the rescue,
 Just a hundred strong;
With fun and pun and epigram,
 And laughter, wit, and song;

With badinage and repartee,
And humor quaint or bold,
And stories that are stories,
Not several æons old;

With parody and nondescript,
 Burlesque and satire keen,
And irony and playful jest,
 So that it may be seen

That women are not quite so dull:
 We come—a merry throng;
Yes, we’re coming to the rescue,
 And just a hundred strong.

Kate Sanborn.

Notes

a Not Poem!

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