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Excerpt from The Book of the East, and Other Poems A Woman's Poem. You say you love me, and you lay Your hand and fortune at my feet: I thank you, sir, with all my heart, For love is sweet. It is but little to you men, To whom the doors of Life stand wide; But much, how much to woman! She Has naught beside. You make the worlds wherein you move. You rule your tastes, or coarse, or fine; Dine, hunt, or fish, or waste your gold At dice and wine. Our world (alas, you make that too!) Is narrower, - shut in four blank walls Know you, or care, what light is there? What shadow falls? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.