GIRLS, we love you, and love <br />Asks you to give again <br />That which draws it above, <br />Beautiful, without stain. <br />Give us weariless faith <br />In our Cause pure, passionate, <br />Dearer than life and death, <br />Dear as the love that's it! <br />Give to the man who turns <br />Traitrous hands or forlorn <br />Back from the plough that burns, <br />Give him pitiless scorn! <br />Let him know that no wife <br />Would bear him a fearless child <br />To hate and loathe the life <br />Of a leprous father defiled. <br />Girls, we love you, and love <br />Asks you to give again <br />That which draws it above, <br />Beautiful, without stain!<br /><br />Francis William Lauderdale Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-girls-of-the-unions/
