Peace To The Odalisque by Emily Jane Pfeiffer read by Lori Gomez

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00:00Peace to the Odolisk by Emily Pfeiffer

00:04One. Peace to the Odolisk, the facile slave whose unrespective love rewards the brave,

00:14or cherishes the coward, she who yields her lord the fief of waste, uncultured fields,

00:22to fester in non-using, she whose hour is measured by her beauty's transient flower,

00:29who lives in man as he in God, and dies his parasite, who shuts her from the skies,

00:36graceful ephemera, fair mourning dream of the young world.

00:41In vain would women's hearts in love with sacrifice withstand the stream of human progress.

00:48Other spheres, new parts await them, God be with them in their quest,

00:53our brave, sad, working women of the West.

00:56Two. Peace to the Odolisk, whose morning glory is vanishing to be alone in story.

01:04Firm in her place, a dull-robed figure stands, with wistful eyes and earnest grappling hands,

01:12the working woman, she whose soul and brain, her tardy right are bought with honest pain.

01:19O woman's sacrifice may still be thine, more fruitful than the souls ye did resign to sated masters,

01:28from your lives so real, will shape itself a pure and high ideal,

01:35that ye will seek with sad wide open eyes, till finding nowhere baffled love shall rise,

01:41to higher planes, where passion may look pale, but charity's white light shall never fail.